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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-24
The Old COlOr-Bearer

Through the city's crowded highways.
Marches on the color-bearer:
White his hair falls to his shoulders.
White as Colorado's mountains.
Proud he bears aloft the standard.
Proud he bore it in the Sixties;
Kenesaw and Lookout Mountain,
High above the clouds it floated.
Heed, We young men, heed the lesson.
Keep untarnished all it's glory;
Glory kindling first at Concord,
Spreading West to far Malolos.
Heed We! Heed We we'll the lesson!
Grow not up unframed for battle;
Sell We not your precious birthright
For a sordid mess of pottage.
Chant our epic. fellow-patriots,
Firmly weld the new-cOme aliens;
Tell of Prescott, Hale and Reynolds,
Custer, Benchley and young Cheney.
Thus will all the wars and rumOrs
Fade away as fades the twilight,
True to all our fathers died for,
Firm We'll march adOwn the ages.
C. w. Taylor in Uncle Sans Magazine
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-24
DOUBLY PROVEN.

Barton Readers Can No Longer Doubt
the Evidence.
This Barton citizen testified long
ago
Told of quick relief-of undoubted
benefit
The facts are now confirmed
Such testimony is complete-the
evidence conclusive
It forms convincing proof of merit,
Mrs. E. @. Wilkie, High street
Barton, says: "For quite a while
my kidneys were disordered and I
suffered from pains in my back and
other symptoms of kidney complaint.
Knowing of people who had been
cured by Doan's Kidney Pills, got a
supply at the Barron Oompany's store
and began using them. Three boxes
brought about great Improvement -
OVER TWO YEARS LATER, Mrs.
Wilkie said: "Doan's Kidney Pills
have proven very satisfactory to me
and others of my family, and I don't
hesitate in again recommending
them"
Price SOC, at all dealers. DON'T
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Wilkie had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, Y. Y.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-24
Estate of Mary Simon
STATE OF VERMONT

STATE OF VERMONT
District of Orleans. SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
70 all persons interested in the estate of
Mary Simon late of Albany, in said
District deceased,
GREETING:
At a Probate Court. holden at Newport,
within and for said District on the 18th day
of May 1916, an instrument purpOrting
to be the last VIII and Testament of Mary
Simon, late Of Albany in said District
deceased, was presented to the Court afore-
said, for Probate.
And it is ordered by said Court that the
9th day of June, 1916, at F. W. Baldwin's
office, in Barton, in said District at 200
p. NJ. be assigned for proving said
instrument and that notice thereof be given
to all persons concerned, by publishing this
order three weeks successfully in the Or
leans County Monitor, a newspaper circu-
lating in that vicinity, in said District
previous to the time appointed.
THEREFORE, you are hereby notified to
appear before said Court at the time and
place aforesaid, and contest the probate of
said will, if you have cause.
Given under my hand at Newport, in said
District, this 18th day of May, 1916.
20-22 RUFUS w. SPEAR, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-24
MEMORIAL DAYS
Of PAST YEARS

IF - ACRlLEGE, we WOulu nave
U . e. called it tn my girlhood.
A. to have failed to give
very able assistance in
celebrating Memorial day. said
woman of middle age. There was,
first of all. the delight of gathering
The flowers. How eagerly we watched
the bushes, hoping that the loveliest
blooms would open In time, or delay
their coming till the great day. Peo-
MES we could count ON. Snowballs
helped, despite their droopfness, and
5pirea was always to be had. We
gasped in admiration over Miss Amy's
contributions of exquisite garlands Of
The pliable bridal wreath, with touches
Of scarlet columbine, or the faint pink
Of wild honeysuckle clustered here and
there, but we could never evolve any
thing half SO lovely. They were at
once our Joy and our despair
Boys we're useful when it came to
wild-fower gathering, even if picking
garden posies was not their forte.
They knew where early laurel and wild
azalea were to be found and they
could be trusted to bring home colum-
bine, wild geranium and buttercups.
For there never was a Memorial day
with too many flowers. There was
the town hall to decorate, where the
veterans assembled for a brief ses-
sion before the march to the GENE
terry. The G. A. r. ladies saw to that,
and beautiful it was to childish eyes
when, brave with bunting and odorous
with flowers, you saw it the night
before, under the shelter Of mothers
enfolding Bingham apron.
There is only one proper sort Of
bouquet for village Memorial day, and
sorry would one woman be should she
ever see it superseded by anything
modern. An up-to-date florist would
be Mortified at it's makeup and bewail
it's Lack Of grace; an artist might
take it as horrible example Of crud-
ity Of color scheme. But to many, the
stiff, tightly-tied bunch of posies, con-
zeal, or bullet-shaped, or fattened into
a parti-oolored disk, means mingled
pathos and pleasure. To the making
Of these nosegays went all the patience
and the primitive taste of the grown
daughters Of the household. There
must be rosebud for the center
grown in the house-for garden roses
were still sleeping, and florists were q
needless luxury in the town Of girl
hood days-and brought to punctua
perfection by much watering and sun
ming. Then in exact order of prece
dence, circle upon circle, came spice
pinks, white or pale mauve, mock or
ange, candytuft, pansies, purple ant
yellow, with an encircling fringe o.
lilies of the valley. And around all
emphasizing the color scheme, was th'
green and rose geranium leaves or tht
} striped slenderness of ribbon grass.
It was redolent of spicy sweetness
and Of loving care, even if it were no
artistic, this Decoration day bouquet
and no debutante ever bore her OF
: chids more proudly than did youthful
volunteer soldier boy or totterins
} veteran the posy Of daughter or sweet
heart.
There was one corner just by tn
First church where every extra buncl
of flowers found it's way. There, il
charge of the minister's wife, the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-24
WEST BURKE

G. M. Dean is visiting his son in
Rochester, N. Fl.
Mrs. A. w. Brockway has been quite
i'll during the past week.
Claude Roundy is working at Scott's |
Bakery, in St. Johnsbury.
Rev. and Mrs. I. P. Chase of Albany
have been visiting Mrs. Cynthia ALL
church.
Mrs. Alton Marsh of Barton was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. William Wallace
last week.
Mrs. Arthur Bishop of Burlington
and little daughter Constance, are Wis.,
iting in town.
DR.. T. J. Walsh is absent on visit
to the Canadian Northwest. where he
went on business.
Mrs. Lucian Chappell has returned
from her long visit to her daughter in
| Newport, N. H.
The service next Sunday will be in
the G A. R. hall and the sermon will
be preached by Rev. F. w. Douglass.
Roy Berry of Sutton has opened the
studio over O. L. Leonard's harness
shop and is ready to take your photo
graph at any time.
Miss Marion Fogg, who has been
spending the past year in California,
and. Mrs. Rawson of St. Paul, Mimi.
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Melcher.
EEThe Woman's club will meet with
Mrs G.. L. Stoddard on Saturday and
as this will be the annual meeting, it
is hoped that large number will be
present.
The G. A. R., and W. R. c., invite
the [. o. o. F., and the Jr. o. U. A.
M. and their families to take part in
the exercises of Decoration day.
There will be service at the water at
$50, decorating the graves at 10, din
ner at noon, and the usual exercises in
gell of Walden will deliver the address
of the day and the school children will
have appropriate exercises
SHEFFIELD
lola Sheldon has returned from
Greensboro.
Charles Sheldon visited his son,
Bert, in St. Johnsbury last week.
Arthur Bates and Glen Pearl visited
at Derby Center one day last week.
Perley Davis of Lyndon visited his
mother Saturday, coming in new au-
tomobile.
Mrs. Susie Trip was called here Sat-
urday on account of the death of Mil
dred Randall.
Ed. Sheldon's house took fire Friday
and bat for the promptness of the
neighbors would doubtless have burned.
Mrs. Alex Drake and Mrs. Frank
Barber will entertain the Ladies' Aid
society Friday afternoon and evening
at the vestry Supper will be served
from 5 o'clock until all are served.
Ladies please come early as there is
sewing to be done
The community was shocked when
the news came over the wire Saturday
morning telling that Mildred Randall,
Oldest daughter of Adelbert and Anna
Randall had died at the bone of Elvira
Gray in Lyndonvlile. Mildred was a
very bright young lady, but had been
poorly for some time and was not able
to attend school, but her friends had
hoped that she might find help, but
God in his infinite love ordered other
wise She would have been Fl years
old in November. Her loss is survived
by her father and mother, three sisters
and one brother. The family have the
deepest sympathy of their many
friends. The funeral was held at the
house Monday.
SUTTON
c. E. Lafoe has been appointed
game warden.
FVirtulon Chesley recently bought 6
nice pair of horses.
M ". Heath has purchased the Jon.
athan Stevens place at the village ano
moved his family there.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-24
YOUNG women
may AVOID PAIN
Need Only Trust to Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, says Mrs. kurtzweg.
Buffalo, NY" My daughter, whose
picture is herewith, was much troubled

with pains in her
back and sides every
month and t h e y
would sometimes be
so bad that it would
seem like acute in
hammation of some
org an. She read
your advertisement
in the newspapers
and tried Lydia E.
Pinkham's V e ge-
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19

These figures show the average price
of electric power in 1912 in the entire
United States to have been only two
thirds what IT was ten years earlier
These reductions do not tell the entire
benefit to the consumer, as they show
only the price of current and offer no
suggestion as to the economics brought
about by Improvement in electric
lamps, motors and other appliances for
utilizing electricity. In lighting alone
the improvement In electric lamps in
the last fifteen years has given the con-
sumer from three to five times as much
illumination with the same amount of
current That is, one cents worth of
electricity now produces FIVE times as
much light as it did fifteen years ago.
One of the most impressive facts
shown by the above table of electric
prices is the effect that water power
development has had upon power costs
1t win be seen that In the Middle At
lantic. West North Central and East
South Central States, where there has
been little water power development,
the rates remained almost the same
for ten years, while I'm the West South
Central States, where there is no water
power development worth mentioning
the cost of power actually increased. In
New England and the South Atlantic
States. where there has been consider
able use of water power. the price
dropped off one-third, while in the
Mountain and Pacific states, where the
greatest development of water power
has taken place the reduction was
fully fifty per cent s
These figures tell the story very Inn
pressively of what may be expected in
the way of benefit to the industries Of
the entire country when the 81, 600 600
horse power of water now running to
waste Is barnessed and put to work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19

calcium carbide is the important fac
tor in the fxation of atmospheric nitro
gen, and is the source of supply upon
which We must rely for nitric acid and
nltrates employed in making muni-
tons of war and fertilizers
All the artificial graphite used in
the world today is produced at Niagara
rams, Dy cheap water power Its uses
are manifold Practically the sole
American supply of abrasives is also
from Niagara
Considering the products of electro
chemistry, chlorine stands out as of
hrst Importance The sterilization of
water supplies of countless cities has
been made possible by the use of
bleaching powder or hypochlorite
and in communities where this agent
is used typhoid has lost its terrors.
Inc American army and the armies of
Europe use chlorine to avert typhoid.
and other chlorine products, including
chioroform, are used surgicalfy, both
as anesthetics and antiseptics. This
same chlorine, or bleach, makes posi-
bic the manufacture of white cotton
goods and white writing paper. Other
products of chlorine, produced electri-
caiIy, enter into the manufacture of
fty. e '' u cheap electric
To meet the shortage I'm coal-tar dyes.
by the combination of chlorine with
coal-tar benzon and tuluol, we are now
beginning to produce in quantities
those necessary Intermediates for
merly made in Germany.
Metallic sodium. also a product of
electricity, is the basis for sodium
peroxide, which is utilized in general
Ing oxygen for hospitals, for labora-
tories and for submarines and mine
rescue apparatus. 1t also enters into
the manufacture of hydrogen peroxide.
Without sodium cyanide many gold
and silver mines could not operate at a
profit
New types of matches have made
their appearance on the American
market since the outbreak of war in
Europe These new brands are made
In America" and largely because we
were cut off from our Norwegian sup
ply. The phosphorus Is produced only
in electric plants.
These are but a few OF the products
OF everyday use that are largely de-
pendent upon water power; many of
these products a few years ago had no
known value. What other products re-
main to be developed with the growth
OF ydro-electricity no man can pre-
dict. But there is a limit on produc-
ton of all these products today. That
limit can only be passed when Con-
gress paves the way for further hydro
electric development by enacting laws
which will make it possible and profit
able for capital to invest in these va
r1ous enterprises at places where to-
day no development is taking place.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19
WATER POWER CUTS
COST OF LIVING
Census Figures Show Reduc-
ton In Electric Rates.

United States census figures show
that one of the few commodities, if
not the only one, which costs less now
than few years ago, is electric cur
rent. While the cost of living gener-
ally has been mounting skyward in the
last ten or fifteen years, the price of
electricity for light and power has
been steadily going downward.
The census reports for 1912 show the
average gross income of commercial
and municipal central stations in cents
per kilowatt-hour since 1902 to have
been as follows:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19
Real Estate BARGAINS

10 House, rooms, $50 foot
lots, city water; well located.
Wa-Keeney at 500. Terms.
IL 4 room house, cellar, city
water, IS fit front, east front, de-
sirable. Price $3.50.
- s room cottage, 100 #
front, in best neighborhood, pan
try. closets, etc., city water and
lights. A uery desirable home.
Price $4,000.
IA Nearly new 6 room house,
good location, so # lot, trees and
shrubery, city water. Price
1900.
Is 9 town lots convenient to
common school, 80 fit front, de-
sirable building place. Price
for both $3.50.
is Nice cottage in good repair
good neighbothood, plenty lot
space. Bargain. Price on ap-
plication.
Ia g Soft town lots in good
part of town, desirable building
site. Price $500.
40 16O a improved, z room
house, fine shade, 120 a Under
cultivation, balance pasture, liv-
ing water, 40 alfalfa ground, 2
miles from school, church and
market. Price $35. 90 a.
90 16O 3 miles from good
market, living water 60 a cult
waited, so fine alfalfa and hay
ground. A fine dairy farm. Price
$1,000 a.
90 4SO improved, good
house, barn and outbuildings, 5
miles to two markets, IL mile to
school, living water, 100 a under
pillow, bal pasture, 60 a alfalfa,
ground partly seeded. Farm
fenced. Price $500.
76 800 5 miles from town.
pasture land, fenced, living
spring water. Bargain at 500. so
per a.
126 800 a miles out, partly
under cultivation, good land all
of 1T at $22 so a.
121 800 miles, smooth and
a. IL O.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19

fine farm land. Price % per a:
l 9th cash, bal r r terms at 6
per cent.
122 800 a 8 miles from two
towns, smooth, every foot tilla-
BILE. Price $500; r R terms.
Sc Ranch of 1900 to 1000 a on
river, highly improved and in
high state of cultivation and pro
duction, convenient to market,
school, etc. Price on applica-
ton
80 $50 a z miles from good
town, fine spring, so a plowed.
balance pasture. Price 12.5 so a.;
terms.
125 $40 pasture land located
convenient TO market, fenced,
living spring water. A bargain
at 1000 per acre. Terms.
40 100 a miles to town, fine
productive farm land, part under
cultivation, really goou one.
Price 5000; terms.
121 Improved Saline river
farm, $50 a, good house, barn,
etc, fenced, Price $4,000.
lao 800 Big creek land, 4 1-2
miles to market, good all round
farm, living water; $500 per a;
terms.
141 800 z miles to good
town, fine farm land for both
wheat and corn. Price $25. 90:
terms
142 $40 a miles OF :, pasture,
all fenced, living water, partly
fine smooth wheat land; S25. 90
per a; terms.
161 800 a g miles out, fine
farm land, partly under cultiva-
ton, good neighborhood, $25. 90
per a; terms
1852 800 II miles from town,
smooth, good soil; price $22. so.
terms
1853 800 a bottom land farm.
line living water, alfalfa ground,
z miles to town, high slass farm
in eeery respect; price So. 90
per a; terms.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19

For Sale Cheap-One extra large
Quincy refrigerator; good as new;
just the thing for farmer. w. G.
Baker. adv. II If.
have several head of mares and
geldings, good size and ages, and a
few drivers for sale cheap. ID. p.
Reade, Ogallah, Kan. AVID If IA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-19

For Sale-Registered yearling Gal
oway bulls. ]. G.. Hixson. Adv. 3tf
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-17
Stories of the War
Wounded Soldiers.

Regarding the state of mind of
wounded soldiers now in the hospitals
after Is months of war, Madame Per-
ouse, President of the Union des Fem
mes de France, says: They support
their sufferingS admirably and are
front than were the wounded in the
hospitals last year at this time. They
talk about active service with an en-
thusiasm that is contagious"
Monsieur Justin Godart Under
secretary for War in charge of the
sanitary department of the army, has
just replaced the society women of the
Red Cross serving as nurses in some
of the military hospitals by paid in
dependent nurses. The choice of
nurses outside the three Red Cross
organizations developed considerable
comment, but there was in this no re-
Election on the devotion of Red Cross
nurses; neither does it bring their eff
fciency into question. Paid, trained
nurses are more adaptable to military
discipline which must prevail in all
military establishments.
Most of the women who devote
themselves to hospital work are from
the easy classes; they are necessarily
so since they are required to give not
only their time and sometimes their
lives, but also their money to the
cause. Some of them pay largely for
the privilege of serving che country
as sorts of maids of all work; others
pay more dearly for the privilege of
working as surgeons aids and as
nurses. Few of them were, before the
war, accustomed to the hard work of
housekeeping, and some of them have
learned its most elementary princi-
pies in the hospitals.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-17
CANNOT DODGE THE LAW.

The semi official statement which
comes from Washington to the effect
that the cabinet meeting revealed
strong opposition to the attitude
which appeared to approve the idea
that armed merchant vessels should
be considered auxiliary cruisers brings
this country back to the attitude,
which it has always maintained and
which is the logical one under inter-
national law, that merchantmen have
a right to arm for defensive purposes.
In spite of the effort which was
made by Secretary Lansing to have
the belligerents adopt modus viven-
di which would govern for the rest
of the war on this very point and
which has been rejected by all con-
cerned, this country cannot do other
than abide by the existing law. There
-Tas slight prospect that the PROPOSE
ton would be acceptable and when
sAe British declared that the note
might as well have come from Ber-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-17

cided to train a number of women in
electrical work in order to release men
for military duty.
The electric lighting industry earned
$3.50, OO0, 900 in 1915. The kiiowatt-
hour product is estimated at 1S,4OO,-
100000 a gain of 1900. 900 kilowatt-
hour over 1914. Earnings have in
creased s23, 900.
Ground was broken on Dec. IA for a
zoo, 900 horsepower steam power plant
to be built on the river front in the
town of Tonawanda, y. Y, for the
Buffalo Electric Company. The plant
will cost $1,5O0,Q0O.
The telephone system to New Zea-
land is being rapidly developed by the
National Government with up-to-date
material and appliances, much of
which is now coming from the Uni
ted States.
Modern large office buildings would
be quite impossible without electricity.
The new Equitable building in New
York city, he largest bodybuilding in
the world, is completely electrified.
Electricity is used for lighting the
building for the fast elevator service,
and for a number Of other things.
According to the latest statistics on
the electrical industry in Spain, there
are 992 plants furnishing electric
uSEIlnS lot puDlC use anu $40 SuCH
plants for private use; 125 electric
plants supply motor service. There
are six electric lamp factories, Of
which four are devoted on making
other electrical supplies.
The production of copper in the
United States has increased more than
twenty five-fold since 1880. The pro-
duction in 1913 was 1862, ZOO, 900
pounds, valued at $255, 100000. The
worlds production of copper is approx
imately 2,211, 900, 900 pounds, of which
the United States produces so per cent,
Europe IS per cent, Canada and Next
co per cent, South America and
Cuba per cent, and all other coun-
tries II per cent. In 1913 the United
States consumed about Al per cent of
the worlds output of copper or about
IS per cent of her production from
native ores.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-17
LADIESI LOOK YOUNG,
DARkEN GRAY HAIR
Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sui
phur Recipe and nobody can tell.
Brush it through hair.

Gray hair, however handsome, de-
notes advancing age. We all know
the advantages of a youthful appear
ance. Your hair Is your charm. 1t
makes or mars the face. When it
fades. turns gray and looks dry.
wispy and scraggly, just a few appH-
cations of Sage Tea and Sulphur en-
hances its appearance a. hundred
fold.
Don't stay gray! Look youngI
Either prepare the tonic at home or
get from any drug store a 50-cent
bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" Thousands Of folks rec
ommend this ready-to-use prepara-
ton. because it darl1ens the hair
beautifully and removes dandruff,
stops itching and falling hair; be-
sides, no one can possibly tell, as 1t
darkens so naturally and evenly. You
moisten a sponge or soft brush with
it, drawing this through the hair,
taking one small strand at a time. By
morning the gray hair disappears;
after another APPLICATION or two its
natural color is restored and it be-
comes thick, glossy and lustrouS and
you appear years younger.