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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-07-19
PAGES SHAM Ballot !
Likened to a Burlesque and
Stamped a Fake by a
Vermont Editor.
Worthless as Indicating Any
Degree of Public Sentiment.

w. w SA -& ~
The Bennington Evenin
by former Lieutenant Cover
of July 18th analyses the str
vile Union Journal in the int
The Banner characterize
Lyndonville paper, "a Shan
was not a genuine undertake
sound public opinion" but /
(meaning that the result wa
was made) to influence the
Senator Page upon a false al
And the Banner conclud
method Of straw vote taxi
lesque, which is a stage up
seen in daylight.
1t is well worth the time
fully what the Banner has S;
1t is here given in full;
Senator Pages first INSTALL
ment of political advertising
has appeared and is a T IL
full bit of false reasOnl"g.
Senator Page has a great
deal of strength, business
sagacity, and is a man OF
many fine qualities. Itsecns
to the Banner q terrible
thing him to start a cam
paign for the high Office OF
United States Senator on
subterfuge. Are the voters
of Vermont children to be
fooled by fairy story?
In the first place the Lyn-
donville Union Journal
didn't take u straw vote Of
Vermont Republicans on the
Sena tOria ! issue. There
wasn't a genulnepole taken
and the actual results OF
even the fake pole have not
been printed.
a genuine pole would have
included the names of at
least three other men in adj
dition to Page and Fletcher
and a correct statement OF
the result would have told
the number of ballots sent
out and the number who
did not reply or who ans
wered in opposition to both
the men suggested.
Further than this, we do
not believe that the alleged
straw vote was a bona fde
attempt OF the Lyndonville
Union ournal to sound pub
lie opinion. This is purely a
guess on the part of the
Banner, but the whole af-
fair indica ties that it was a
"plant" by Senator Page or
some worker in his behalf
and carefully planned to
show a prepOnderence of
sentiment in his favor.
The straw vote of the kind
taken would cost not less
than $500, as stamped re-
turn envelopes were sent for
replies. John B. Chase, edi-
tor and publisher Of the
Union-Journal, is a country
editor in a small town and
Senator Page might graft
if he would for a
vote taking, his prolific letter
other methods resorted to in h
out of the senatorial contest, {
Thousands Of people ii
what Senator Page has ST
in the way of progre
The eight years he has been a
Will Mr.. Page A
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Estate of Augustine C. Luce
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District Of LamOille.

ne t1OnOIdDlC IIODdit NDuIL LOT tlt
District Of LamOille.
To all persons interested in the Estate OF AU
CUISINE c. LUCE, late Of Steve, in said
District deceased, GREETING:
At Probate Court holden at Hyde Park, with
in and for said district, on the 9th day Of July
1910, an instrument purporting to be the last viii
and Testament OF Augustine I. Luce, late Of
Stowe in said District deceased was presented to
the Court aforesaid for Probate.
And It is ordered by said Court that the 7Ist
day Of July, 1910 at the Probate Office, in sad
Hyde Park, be assigned for proving said instru-
ment; and that notice thereof be given to all per-
sons concerned by publishing this order three
weeks successfully in the News and Citizen,
newspaper circulating in that vicinity, in said Dis
uict, previous to the time appointed
Therefore, you are hereby notified to appear be-
fore said Court, at the time and place Aforesaid
and contest the probate Of said Will, if you hav'
cause.
Given under my hand at Hyde Park in
District, this 9th day Of July, 1915.
A. MOVES G. WOOD, Judge
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-07-19

we do not believe that he
spent or could afford to
spend upwards Of $500 on
any enterprise of the sort.
Mr.. Chase is anindependent
voter of Democratic lean
ings, but a personal friend
and admirer Of Senator
Page. He had a perfect
right to do the Senator a
favor by polling his alleged
straw vote for him and to
let the Senator pay the cost,
but it is not to be taken seri-
Ously. Anyone has the right
to form an opinion from the
evidence at hand.
We do not claim to have
any proof in the matter, but
the case does not seem to be
very obscure. 1t is mani
testify not important Just
how the list was made out,
so long as it was sent main
ly to partisans on the Page
mailing list. A ten minute
canvass in any town in Yer
mont will prove the utter
humbug of the affair.
The real point is that the
so called straw vote was
known to be of no value
even before the result was
partially announced. To at
tempt now to make it the
basis of an argument to the
citizens OF Vermontis likeat-
tempting to buy real goods
with imitation money.
The Republican voters of
Vermont, on Sept. II, are
to decide by direct vote
whether they want Senator
Page for their candidate
again or whether they pre-
fer another. Senator Page
has been eight years in the
United States Senate. What
the voters want to know is
whether his work there war
rants his retention. It is
only two months to the pri-
mary and comedy stuff like
the Union Journals poll
ought to be put away with
the other tinsel and trap
pings of the first act.
, the desire of many loyal |
ief moment drop his straw
riting, his personal and all
attempt to keep other men
d reply to his interrogators.
Vermont desire to know
ID for and what he has /
i've constructive legislation /
Senator.
nsWer +?
er Senatorial Club.
6.
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Wisdom Cannot AIWaYs Save.

Superior wisdom doesn't save a
man. A weather prophet catches cold
as often as ANYBODY else.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-07-19

Itch! Itchi Itchl-Scratch! Scratch
scratch! The more you scratch, the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointme MT.
For eczema, any skin itching. SOC box.
adv.
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BUSINESS CARDS
ARLINGTON RESTAURANT

Serves meals and lunches at all hours from 700
a. m. until 1000 p. m. We also have furnished
rooms tor dodgers. Grocery store in connection
DRINKS keep out or you go to the coop.
F. c. MEACHAM, Morrsville, VT.
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NE : kTFGHEN
I2caEEG5ABINET

Don't idly dream! There is no time
for dreaming,
No time to drone and loiter on
the way,
With opportunity each day Is tenn
ing,
That till you deign to waken,
will not stay.
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SEASONABLE DISHES.

Good cooking will make almost any
meat tender and bad cooking will
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-07-19

tougher the best
Of meats. Lean
meat is made up of
bundles of hollow
fibers, filled with
juices like the
white of an egg. If
meat lies in cold
wafer the iuiceS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-07-19
Eden

Mrs. Z. A. Dodge has gone to Norris
vile.
Miss Mildred Bell of Westfeld visited
last week at II. w. Shattuck's.
Frank Adams has gone to Proctor to
see his sister, Mrs. Ernest Kinds, who is
ia he Proctor hospital
Mr. and Mrs. II. w. Shattuek and
daughter, Vivian have been in Glover.
visiting Fred Fuller's people.
DR.. Chester Leach and family are
ctmping at Lake Eden; also DIR. Join
Stevens and family, all of Hyde Park.
Mrs. Frank Harrington and little daugh-
ter are in st. Johnsbury. The little Girl
viii be operated on for adenoids while
there.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
Imprisonment For Debt.

About the middle of the last cen
fury the power of %imprisoning Il debt
or for life was taken from the creditor.
and it fills II with Amusement to
think that Il system so ridiculous
should have continued as long as it
did. The three principal debtors pris-
ons in England were the Kings Bench.
the Marshalsea and the Borough
Compiler. In the year 1853 there were
10000 prisoners for debt in Great Brit
ain and Ireland. The futility of the
system was quite as great as it's bar
barity. More than half the prisoners
in some OF the prisons We're kept there
solely because they could not pay the
attorneys costs. Many prisoners had
their wives and children With them.
There was no intirmary, no resident
surgeon and 40 bath.-Dundee Adver-
tiser.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
MAILING AN IMAGE.
Curious Custom of the Natives of the
koneo Country.

Curious custom OF the Natives of the
Koneo Country.
Among the curious objects in the
home OF the Royal Geographical So
ciety at kensington Gore, in London,
is a fetish that was captured in 1865
from river pirates on the Kongo riv-
er. 1t is q wooden figure with mica
eyes that glisten unpleasantly in the
dark. A number of heavy nails have
been driven into its body.
According to Mr.. T. A. Joyce of the
British museum, the practice of driv-
ing nails into images has two pur-
poses. One is simply to get a favor
granted. In that case the w~orshiper
on paying the fetish man a fee is per
mitted to drive a nail into the figure
while uttering his petition. The 9TH
er purpose is to injure an enemy. In
that case the applicant pays a heavy
fee and drives his nail into the figure
in the belief that his enemy will fall
i'll and die.
A man who falls i'll goes at once to
the fetish man and makes inquiries
and if he finds that an enemy has
driven a nail into the idol with him
in mind he brides the fetish man
heavily to remove it. That, he thinks,
insures his getting we'll.
The principle underlying the prac.
tice is quite different from that un-
DERIVING the old practice of making a
wax image of an enemy and driving
pins into it. The way figure repre-
sented the victim, who in some oc-
cult way felt in his own person the
abuse lavished on his efIigy. The nail
driven into the wooden figure, on
the contrary, is to remind the god tc
perform the wishes of the petitioner.
1t is, as it were. to tie a string round
his finger Youths Companion.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
WHEN BIRDS MIGRATE.
Yearly Flight of the Wheatear From
Africa to Greenland.

In flying from Europe to Africa
birds cross the Mediterranean sea at
a point where the water is so shallow
that it is believed the two continents
were formerly connected there. The
land bridge, which it is thought for
merly guided the birds in their fight.
| has disappeared, but the habit of cross
ing at this particular place still re.
mains.
How do you suppose the little wheat
ear, no larger than a bluebird, formed
the habit of migrating from Europe to
Greenland? Probably he comes by
way of England and Iceland, but at
the best it is a long journey and seems
to take the bird much farther than it
is necessary to go. In the autumn he
goes back to winter in Africa.
Doubtless some European water birds
visit us every year, but the wlleatear,
so far as | know. is the only land bird
which migrates regularly between
North America and Africa. With this
exception, no North American land
birds leave the western hemisphere in
their migrationS.
The birds of the western United
States are not such great travellers as
those of the eastern part of our coun
try. Some of them travel only from
the higher parts of the Rocky moun
tians or Sierras, where they nest, to
the low. warm valleys in which they
winter.
Those that leave the United States
go into Mexico. Some continue their
journey as far south as Guatemala,
but few 90 farther south than that.
They can, therefore. make their jour
ney overland and so do not encounter
the dangers to which many of our east
ern migrants are eXposed.-Frank NJ.
Chapman in st. Nicholas.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
NATIVES or ALASKA.
Both Glasses Of Them Seem to Be Of
Asiatic Origin.

There are but two classes of ma.
lives in Observation-Disclosures and Siwash
Indians. Eskimos live along the north.
.ern coast line, while the Siwash is
found in every part of Alaska.
The Eskimo is probably of Mon
gOlian extraction, and the Siwash Ger.
tainly Is. In a mixed company of 81
wash Indians and Chinese coolies. ali
dressed in similar garb, it would be
impossible to distinguish one from the
other by physical appearance alone.
Likewise in speech the cultural tones
r identical, and peculialities of in
Election and the little
mannerisms of orientals and Siwashes
are as strikingly similar as their phys.
zeal characteristics. The Siwash vo-
cabulary contains between 200 and 300
~wOrds-some villages using more and
others fewer words, but all containing
some words of oriental origin.
The language of all Siwashes was
unquestionably the same originally,
some villages are unable to under.
stand the language spoken in others.
The speech of these natives on the
Aleutian islands probably shows the
widest divergence from the original
Of all the various dialects.
Many Indians speak Russian. and
not a few speak the provincial idiom
called Chinook, common in British Co
lumbia, Washington and some other
states.
All these Indians had a common orr
gin, and that origin was in Asia be-
fore the continents divided at Bering
strait. Siwashes frequently have red
hair, and bald heads are not uncom
mon. Not so of the true American
Indian. While Siwashes drifted far
southwark, even into California. none
Of them W. crossed the big barrier.
Is they term the Rocky mountains,
In every way except in occupation
they are different from the Indians of
the states. The Siwash turns his at.
tention to hunting and trapping from
necessity not from choice, He never
hunts for sport-only for meat.-New
York World.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
Two Horses.

Is It the fast horse or the slow horse
in q team that pulls the greater part of
the load? The department. Of agricul-
fural engineering of the Iowa College
OF Agriculture says it is the slower
horse. 1t says that s%upposing one
horse of a team is eight inches ahead
Of the other. the load divides in u IA
Ito Of 100 to JOG pounds. i'll ease the
center hole in the equalizer is -Four
inches out Of line with the holes at the
end OF the equalizer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
MYSTERY OF THE MOLE.
He Lives In the Dark, Yet Yearns For
the Midday Sun.

I'C "ioody ouH'
There is a great mystery about the
moles. They live in the dark under
ground, but yet they are sun worship
ers. Just at the hour of noon, when
the sun is at its highest point in the
sky. the mole often comes to the sur
face. 1t is Il habit of the race, a kind
of religious observance, one might
think.
Seldom does a mole willingly make
its appearance in the upper world ut
any other time of the day. but at that
moment they come OF their own ac-
cord. This fact, which has been OBJ
served again and again, has never been
explained by naturalists.
But, remembering the common belief
that a mole is blind, you may ask.
How can it see the SUM-" The myth
of the blindness of moles has been
brushed away. Some species perhaps
cannot see. but most of them can.
Their eyes are very small and hidden
in the fine hair. but they serve as or
gans of vision.
Still, they can have very little use
for them underground. Any leakings
of daylight that may penetrate there
must be extremely faint, and if their
eye were meant to enable them to see
with so little illumination they ought
to he large and free from obstruction.
whereas they are minute and matched
with hair. But such eyes may be par
ticularly we'll suited for an occasional
look at the binding sun.-New York
journal.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
State of South Dakota, State of South Dakota
SUTHERLAND & PAYNE,
Attorneys for Mortgage
Pierre, S. D.

State of South Dakota, State of South Dakota
SIS
County of Hughes. Sends Greeting:
To John l. Newell, Record Owner, and to 7. j.
Cook. the person in whose name the premise 3
hereinafter described are taxed:
You are hereby notified in accordance with the
provislons OF the statute in such case made and
provided. that on the 18th day of November, 1911,
ethen treasurer of said Hughes County, ex-
posed for sale and sold, at Il regular public sale
OF lands for delinquent taxes in and for Hughes
County, the following described real estate, to-
wit:
Lots One %, TwoT2). Block One ~ Palmer
Place Addition to the town, now City of Pierre.
Hughes County. South Dakota. for the taxes of
1910, then due and delinquent thereon; that said
property was purchased by Hughes County. South
Dakota, and the certificate has since been assign
ed TO M. b Griffin, who is now the lawful owner
and holder of the certificate of purchase therefor.
And whereas two years have expired since the
date OF purchase of said tract. or lot, and the
property aforementioned has not been redeemed:
you are also notified that the right of redemption
will expire and a deed for said described proper
ty will be made, unless redemption from such sale
be made, together with accrued interest and costs
of this notice within sixty days from the date of
completed service of this notice on you.
M. L. GRIFFIN,
Owner of Certificate,
SUTHERLAND & PAYNE,
ATTORNEYS.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
HAzING AT WEST POINT.
a Sample Of the Franks the Cadets
PLAYED in 1860.

From a West Point cadets letter.
published in 1860 in the South AT,
lantic Quarterly, we learn:
General Scott has arrived. We will
review before him Monday or Tues
day. He makes West Point his head
quarters during the summer. The Off
GERS in charge of the new cadets this
year are making every exertion to pro
tect them from rough treatment. Their
quarters and the immediate vicinity
are by special order rendered off cadet
limits so that any cadet found there
would be placed In arrest and treated
with the same severity which he
might expect We're he discovered at
Benny Havens.
"Three cadets have already been
placed In close arrest for 'trihing with
new cadets One of them who threw
q potato at said new cadets in the
mess hall will probably be court mar
tailed. Notwithstanding all this vigi-
lance, they still have their share of
hard times
1.-THE most amusing Of the practical
jokes was perpetrated upon them the
other night by some cadets who Went
up to their rooms while they We're
dreaming of home and carried off all
their clothes. The consequence was
the Plebes were half of them absent
from reveille: the rest presented IL
most ridiculous appearance. All of
fhOIn wifhout hats Snr,o IN fbn;r
stocking feet, M man with his own
coat on, while from the windows
above the others looked down with
long faces and wrapped about. with
blankets. terrified to death at being
reported absent from reveille. but not
even an umbrella in ease Of a ire
"Goodby, with much love TO all from
your Affectionate Son,
.T. ROWLAND"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
WATCHES

Does that watch keep time? If not
sender bringl it to us. Reed, The
Jeweler, Pierre, S. ID.
We repair any kind of watches il
they are worth it, or rebuild and re
pair jewelry so it will look as good as
new Reed, Pierre.
Watches and diamonds on the
monthly payment plan, talk to us be
fore buying elsewhere. This is the
place where you get your moneys
worth and a square deal. Reed, The
Jeweler, Pierre, S. ID.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
EGGS For MATCHING

White Wyandotte eggs. Pen No. /
IS 90 for 10.
White Wyandotte eggs, Pen No, 2
81 90 for Is.
Columbian Wyapdotte eggs, 20 OF
for 10
R, c. White Minorca eggs, $500
for Is.
Buff O%rpington eggs, $500 for Is.
Indian Runner Duck eggs, fawn and
white, S1.00 for Ill.
Limited amount of stock for sale oil
all above varieties.
We won the following prizes at the
Pierre Pountry Show:
Eight lists.
Eight ends.
Nine 3rds.
Two Cups.
MIR. AND MRS. r.. c. SANDERS.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
Notice of Hearing Petition For Let
tiers of Administration

S coaet ot Of s1q Hne bes0ta' IS In County Court
In The Matter of the Estate of Albert Wenzel.
Deceased.
The State of South Dakota sends Greeting TO
Rosa Wenzel. George Wenzel, Logan Werzel and
Albert WenZel. heirs at law and next of kin of
Albert Wenzel, deceased. and to all whom these
presents may come.
Notice is hereby given that Rosa Wenzel has
filed with the Judge Of this Court, a petition
praying for Letters of Administration of the Es-
tate of Albert Wenzel. Deceased. and that Mon
day the 18th day of March 1916 at one o'clock r.
M of said day, being a day of a regular term of
this Court, to-wit: of the March term, 1916, at
the office of the Judge of the County Court in the
Court House in the City of Pierre, County of
Hughes, has been set for hearing said petition,
when and where any person interested may APP
pear and show cause why the said petition should
not be granted.
Dated at Pierre. S. Oak. this 18th day of Febru-
ary, A, D.. 1916.
(sEAL) JOHN II. MCCoKD
Attest: County JUDGE.
LEW w. sANpys. Clerk of Courts.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
AS the Times Chance.

IN the sixties the customary pro
posal was, will you be mine?" Very
family signs are showing that men will
yet say, "May l be yours?" 1t will
take time, for the possessive.. the dom
mating instinct in man, is still strong.
and long may it live. for that is the
vigor of the race. Only we do not want
that instinct to carry man away. any
more than W. want a well bred horse
to clinch its teeth upon the Nit and
bolt.-W. l.. George in Atlantic.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
The Retort Courteous.

He-One thing is sur don't in.
tend to be criticised and censured be
cause 1 have failed to realize your ex,
pectations. She-You misunderstood
NJ completely. All that l have done is
~ express my conviction that you have
more than justified my fears.-Rich
mond Tmes-Dispatch.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
Puonacious Doves.

Peace lovers had better find another
bird to become symbolical of their
ideas, for the dove is not a bird of
peace, but is one of the most pugna-
cious little fighters. In fact. the dove
fights a large part of it's waking hours
Washington Star.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
General Sale and Lease Notice

Notice is hereby given that a sale of Common
School or Endowment Lands will be held in the
following counties:
Bookings. April 1ith; Charles Mix, April 5th;
18th; Grant, April l4th; Hutchinson, April 4th:
Kingsbury, April 10th; Lake, April Sth; Nc
Cook. April 18th: Mcpherson, April 18th; Roberts,
Allsales will be made at public auction, at the
front door of the Court House of the Counties
named, between the hours of 1000 a. M, and
500 p. m.
All Unbiased lands remaining unsold will be Of
fered for lease on the day following the sales, by
the several County Auditors, except in Lake
County. where the date of leasing is April 10th.
and in Roberts on April 18th. between the hours
of 10 O'Clock A. M, and 5 O'Clock p. M.
Dated at Pierre, January goth. 1916.
FRED ~HEPPERLE.
Commissioner of School and Public Lands.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-16
Notice of Mortgage Sale

Default exists in e conditions of a mortga.
dated March 11tli, 1911. executed by Thor Halver
son and Clara Halverson, his wife, mortgagors. to
Thos. j. Twining, MORTGAGE, recorded in the of
flee of the Register of Deeds OF Hughes County.
South Dakota, in Book l3l Of Mortgages. on Page
II, mortgaging Lots One % and Two ~ and East
Half (Ela) of the Northwest quarter (NWA) of
Section Thirty 800, in Township One Hundred
Twelve ll2l north. OF Range Seventy-six go.
West OF the Fifth P. M. Hughes County. South
Dakota. There is due upon said mortgage at this
date sos. 70 principal and Interest,"; $l41.92 taxes
necessarily paid, and statutory attorneys fees.
Notice is hereby given that said mortgage will be
foreclosed by a sale of the mortgaged premises at
public auction for cash, at the front door of the
Court House in the City Of Pierre, Hughes Coun-
ty, South Dakota. on the 3lst day of January, 1916
at | 300 clock P. M.
Dated December q, 1915.
THOS. j. TWINING,
Mortgagee.
SUTHERLAND & PAYNE,
Attorneys for Mortgagee,
Pierre, S. D.