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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
Commissioners Notice
Estate of Martha E. Knapp

The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District of Orleans, Commissioners, to re-
ceiVe, examine and adjust the claims and
demands of all persons against the estate
of Martha E. Knapp, late of Irasburg in
saidDistr1ct, deceased, and all claims exhib-
tied in offset thereto, hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purpose afore-
said, at the office of the Town Clerk IN the
town of Irasburg in said District, on the
18th day of October and 23d day of February
next, from 10 o'clock am, until o'clock p. m
on each of said days and that six months
from the Path day of August A. D. 1916, is
the time limited by said Court for said credi-
tors to present their claims to US for examt-
nation and allowance.
Dated at Irasburg, VT, this 18th day OF
September, A. D. 1916,
GEO. w. RUSSELL,
D. A. BRAHANA
2S-40 Commissioners
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
TWICE-TOLD TESTIMONY.
Barton People are Doing all They can
| for Fellow Sufferers.

Barton testimony has been pub
lished to prove the merit of Doan's
Kidney Pills to others in Barton who
suffer from bad backs and kidney ills.
Lest any sufferer doubt this evidence
of merit, we produce confirmed proof
Statements from Barton people
who again endorse Doan's Kidney
Pills-confrm their former testimony
Here's Barton case:
F. E. Sawyer, Main street, Barton,
says: II wish as many suffering men
and women as l can reach through
this statement to know the merit OF
Doan's Kidney Pills. I was greatly
benefited by this medicine, and I also
know of several other people who
have been cured of bad attacks OF
kidney complaint by it's use. Doan's
Kidney Pills rid me of pains in my
back and other distressing symptoms
Of disordered Kidneys"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
CHAPTER XVII.
Autumn In the Garden.

Autumn In the Garden.
[ spent considerably more money In
July and August Some Of the items
would be regarded as necessities even
by our rural standards; some my farm
ing neighbors would deem a luxury, If
not downright folly. I was a green
farmer then; am a green farmer still;
but as began to get about the region
little more that first summer espe-
c1ally at haying time, I was struck
with the absurd waste Of machinery
brought about by insufficient care and
lack Of dry housing, and began to do
some figuring. All my rural neighbors,
even Bert left their plows, harrows,
hay rakes, mowers, and even their
carts, out of doors in rain and sun all
summer, and many Of them all winter.
A soaking rain followed by scOrch-
ing sun seemed to me, in my igno-
rance, @ most effective way Of running
a wagon, Of shrinking and splitting
hubs, Of loosening the fastenings of
shafts even in iron machinery. Mel
| Their do rusted bearings wear SO long
as those properly protected. I began
to understand why our farmers are so
poor, and 1 sent for Hard Cider.
just behind the barn he built me
a lean-to shed, about seventy-fve feet
long, open toward the east, and shin
! gled rainproof. It cost me $500, but
every night every piece of farm ma
chinery and every farm wagon went
under it, and the moving machine was
further covered with a tarpaulin. For
more than year my shed was the
only one Of the kind in Bentford, and
that next winter I used to see machin-
cry standing behind barns, half buried
in snow and ice, going to pieces for
want of care. I verify believe that the
New England farmer Of today is the
most shiftless mortal north Of the Ma
son and Dixon line-and he hasn't
hoOkwOrm for an excuse.
My next expenditure was for q &C.
ment root cellar, which scarcely needs
defense, as I had no silo on the barn
and it would not pay to install one fol
only two COWS. But the third item
filed Mike with scorn. I had beer
making him milk the COWS out of doors
| LII OOAIC WCChS, Cdh1uSS I1p LULU ollS
Of the big estates, and keeping an eye
on him to see that he washed his hands
properly and put on one of the white
milking coats 1 had purchased. Hi
utter contempt for that white rig wa
comical, but when I told him that
was going to have cork and asphal
brick floor laid in the COW shed b.
was speeches.. He had endured tn
white apron, and the spectacle Of tn
tuberculin test (the latter because tn
law made him), but an expensive foo
In the barn was too much. He CAV
me one plying look, and walked away
: The floor was laid, however, an,
when it was completed, and the drain
age adjusted, Hard Cider trimmed u
the supports Of the barn cellar doc
and the two cellar window frames be
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
500 Reward. 500

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all it's stages, and that Is
positive cure now known to the me medical S
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. there
by destroying the foundation Of the dis
ease. and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing it's work. The proprietors
have. so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list Of testimonials.
Address: F. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Hairs Family Pills 70, constipation
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
Commissioners Notice
Estate of Martha A. Seaver

THE UNDERSIGNED, having been ap-
pointed by the Honorable Probate Court
for the District of Orleans, COMMISSION
claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Martha A. Seaver late OF
Barton, in said District, deceased and all
give notice that we will meet for the pur-
pose aforesaid, at the store of II. T. Seaver
in the village of Barton in said District
on the 9Th day of October, 1916 and 18th day
of February 1917, from one O'Clock p. M, until
four O'Clock p. M. on each of said days and
that six months from the 25th day of August
A. d. 1916 is the time limited by said court
for said creditors to present their claims tC
US for examination and allowance.
Dated at Barton this 18th day of September
A. D. 1916.
H. A. CLEVELAND,
0. A. WHITE,
3S-40 Commissioners
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

DR.. T. R. Stiles, who recently moved
his family from St. Johnsbury to st.
Johnsbury Center, has opened an office
for the practice of medicine in the
Merchants bank building. DR.. Stiles
has rented his house on Cross street, st.
Johnsbury, to DR.. R. H. Burke of
West Burke, who will locate there
about October 1.
l. T. F. Marshall, of st. Johnsbury. who
has been experimenting with a new
variety of bean, planted one bean of
new kind, from which he has harvested
Marshall, of St. Johnsbury Center, has
also been having similar luck in gar
dening, having grown cucumber that
measures 10 inches long and ten inches
around. &C. EESg
George A. Whipple of Lyndonville,
recently lost six good cows from poi
soning. After spraying trees last
summer be stored the remainder of the
poison in a barrel in his sugar house.
On going there he discovered that his
sugar house had been riddled with
shots, also the barrel inside, and the
poison had leaked out and down into the
pasture where the COWS ate it and
| WSA hOASOuCus DOyo WI WILL LASAA
guns are responsible for the trouble.
1nfantile paralysis made it's appear
ance in ST. Johnsbury last week. The
sufferer, Elmer Gravlin, four-year-old
son of Fred Gravlin, living on Railroad
street, first showed symptoms of the
disease Tuesday, but when a paralysis
of the lower limbs developed Wednes-
day DR.. Walsh, who attended the case,
notified the local health authorities. At
the same time sister, six years of
age has shown signs of the same dis
ease, but there has been no paralysis
of the limbs and the case is taking a
mild form. Every precaution has been
taken against the spread of the dis.
ease in town. The children affected
are thought to have been exposed
about ten days ago while visiting with
their parents in fillmore. at the home
of Mr.. Gravlin's brother. At thai
time there was no case in Emore, hu
since then case has developed in the
home of nejghhor next door to thu
Gravlin home Although no direc
contact has been accounted for, it i
thought that the children may hav'
played together, and the disease ma.
have been transmitted in that way.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
Estate of James NJ. Wyman
STATE OF VERMONT

District of Orleans. SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Orleans
To all persons interested in the estate of
James M. Wyman late of BrOWning tOn, in
said District deceased,
GREETING:
At a Probate Court, holden at Newport
within and for said District on the 26th day
of September 1916 aninstrument purpOrting
to be the last Will and Testament of James NJ
Wyman, late of Bloomington in said District
deceased, was presented to the Court afore-
said, for Probate.
And it is ordered by said Court that the
18th day of October, 1916, at the Probate
Office in said Newport, at ? O'Clock
p. m, 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-
iating 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 26th day of September 1916.
39-4 RUFUS w. SPEAR, Judge.
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SYNOPSIS.

! n u SYNOFSIS.
CHAPTER II grow tired Of my WORK
as g college Instructor and buy New
England farm on sight.
CHAPTER III inspect my farm and go
to board at Bert Temples. Bert helps me
to hire a carpenter and farmer.
CHAPTER III-Hard Cider. the car
penter, estimates the repairs and changes
blowing. T start to prune the orchard
trees.
CHAPTER Willard Cider builds book
cases around the twin freplaces- Mrs
Temple hires Mrs. PlHg for me as
housekeeper.
CHAPTER v-stella Goodwin. New
York girl, comes as 8 boarder to the Tenn
pies. I try to avoid her, but meet her In
listen to the singing Of the hermit thrush.
I show her the twin freplaces-
flower garden around the house. We
build Roman arch for a rose trell1s.
CHAPTER vII-we pick the paint for
comes angry at me when I leave her
alone to select part of It. I build sun
dial on the lawn.
CHAPTER VIII-We arrange my books
in the cases and build twin fires in the
freplaces. At evening we go to the pines
and hear the hermit thrush again.
|, CHAPTER IX-On Memorial day we
build a bird bath. I come upon Stella
Wading in the brook. We listen for the
thrush again. but he does not sing.
CHAPTER X-Mrs. Pills, Peter and
Buster, the pup, arrive. l eat my first
meal in my home at Twin Fires.
CHAPTER XI-Standing among the
pines, and with the thrush singing to US,
1 kiss Stella. I keep a resolution but
! feel like fool. Stella goes back to New
| York.
| CHAPTER XII-Stella sends letter to
| Buster in answer to one from me. She
! of my farm products. I go to New York
| where meet Stella, who promises to be-
| come the mistress of Twin Fires.
CHAPTER XII1-A magazine accepts
my story. I marry Stella and we go home
| to Twin Fires.
make a pool and water garden in the
brook.
CHAPTER Xv-Stella decides tina
sunken gardens are so called because 81
much money is sunk in them
CHAPTER XVI-Some Of our rcl
neighbors call on and are entertained
We decide never to be rich.
Continued from last week)
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04

CHAPTER XII-Stella sends a letter to
Buster in answer to one from me. She
spurs me to writing again. I market some
of my farm products. I go to New York
where meet Stella, who promises to be-
come the mistress of Twin Fires.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER a. 1915

hind, and built in substantial screens.
Then I showed them to him, and told
him he was to keep them closed under
penalty Of his job, and he was further
to sprinkle chloride Of lime on the ma
nure once a week.
"Wel1, I never seen screens on a
barn before" said he, land I guess
nobody else iver did. Shure, it's to be
spendfn' your money azy We are. Are
yez goin' to put in bathroom for the
horse?"
Bert was almost as scornful Of the
screens as Mike, though he understood
the cork-asphalt floor, having, in fact,
unconsciously persuaded me to install
it by telling me how the COWS of a
dairyman in the next town had been
injured by slipping on concrete floor.
My floor had the advantage of con-
crete, but gave the COWS a footing.
There had never been screens on a
barn in Bentford before, however, nor
any chloride Of lime used This was
too much for Bert. But Mrs. Bert was
interested. After our screens had been
on ten days and the barn cellar had
been lined, Mrs. Pillig pointed out that
the number Of flies caught on the fly
paper on the kitchen door had de
creased at least 400 per cent. "And /
think what's there now come down
from your place." she added to Mrs
Bert. The next thing we knew, Bert
was talking Of screening his stable
Truth compels me to admit, however
that he never got beyond the talking
stage.
In the face Of these expenditures
our garden expenses were a mere song
yet we had begun to plant and plar
for the following year as soon as the
pool was done. We knew we were
green, and we did not scorn the advice
of books and still more of our bes
practical friend-the head gardener o.
one Of the large estates, who knew thu
exactions of our climate and the con
| ditions of our soil.
"Plant your perennial seeds in a.
rich and cool a place as you cam h,
{ told US, "and expect to lose at leas
-fourths of your larkspur. Whel
your foXglove plants are large enough
to transplant, make long trenches il
the vegetable garden, with manure a
the bottom and four inches of soil O!
top, and set in the plants. Do it earl
in September if you can, so that the,
can make roots before our early frosts
Then you'll have fine plants for bed
ding in spring. If you buy any plants
get 'em from a nursery farther mort
if possible. They have to be YER
hardy here"
We went through the seed catalogue
as one Wanders amid manifold tempta
lions, but we kept to our purpose o
planting only the simpler, more old
fashioned blooms at present. In add
ton to the bulbs, which came later
we resolved to SOW pansies, sweet VII
liam, larkspur, Canterbury bells, fox
glove, peach bells, oriental peoples
platycodon, veronica, mallow (for back
ing to the pool especially, hollyhocks
phlox Goth the early variety, the d1
varicata, blooming in May, and, O
course, the standard decussata. Tn
May phlox we secured in plants. A
these seeds were carefully planted i
the new beds between the pool and tn
orchard. where we could water the1
plentifully, and Stella, with the II
stincts Of the true gardener, babe
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
WEST BURKE

Mrs. Eggleston appears to be failing.
Mrs. Mary Packer of st. Johnsbury
visited friends in town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollister of Rutland
visited at H. |. Fosters last week.
About $50 was cleared at the o. E.
S. chicken pie supper Friday evening.
Mrs. E. E. Mcinnis of st. Johnsbury
was the guest of Mrs. May Coe, last
| week.
Rev. G. w. Douglass went to New
port Center Friday evening to give a
reading.
Dorothy Chase is boarding at L. G.
Roundy's and attending school here in
the village.
Mrs. Lorinda Marshall, who has been
improving for the past few weeks. is
not as well.
Mrs. Drown and Mrs. Booth of Rich.
mond, P. O.. have been visiting rela-
tives in town.
Mrs. H. w. Cobleigh and Mrs. Eli
Duval and daughter took a trip to Bos-
ton last week.
Several members of the w. R. c.,
attended the district meeting in Con-
cord Tuesday of last week.
Sunday school rally day was observed
here Sunday and the interesting ex-
ercises were very we'll attended.
Mrs. Florence Pinkham and Miss
Kittie Garland of Lawrence, Mass,
have been spending few days at Har-
rison Orcutt's.
The Garden Class fair at the school
house Saturday afternoon was real
success. The children brought veget-
ables, canned goods, sewing, poultry,
etc., and the display was a good one
for the first attempt. Six dollars and
a half were given in prizes, and the
youngsters went home feeling happy
and encouraged.
SHEFFIELD
Mrs. z. J. Blake and family have re.
turned to Boston.
Alice Davis has been visiting in Ian.
caster the past week.
]. S. Chesley has sold his farm tc
Will Hanson of Barton.
Abraham Gray from Charleston
visited at o. H. Jenness's last week.
S. A. Jones and family attended the
funeral of Mrs Leach at East Burke
Sunday.
Alden Eastman has returned from
Newport, where be has been visiting
friends for a few weeks.
G. H Roberts has purchased thu
, building and contents of the store al
Wheelock and will move soon.
) Much sympathy is felt here by tn,
, friends of DR.. and Mrs. Root of Eas
Burke but fromerly of this place in thu
death of their daughter, Lottie Leach
/ Rev. M. w. Farman will give lee
T ture at the next Grange meeting. Mr.
, Farman is totally blind. He is very il,
! teresting speaker and everyone shoult
take advantage of this opportunity t.
:, hear him.
The following officers were elected a
;. the last social for the F. b. Ladies' All
: society: President. Mrs. A. o. Gray
first vice president, Mrs. Minnie Shell
don; second vice president, Mrs. Ad.
8 Sheldon secretary, Mrs. Alice Davis
9 collector, Mrs. Flora Barber; treasurer
e Mrs. Edna Quimby assistant collector
;! Mrs. Ada Sheldon.
SUTTON
:. H. A. Blake is having his hous
4 painted.
r Mrs. P. J. Mitchell is visiting he
a son, Guy Clark in Enfield. N. IT.
8 Mrs. Addie Chesley of Lyndonvill
r has been visiting relatives and friend.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Jones of Can
T. bridge have been visiting at c. E. c.
e burns.
= = Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Gallup of Unde
hill visited his sister, Mrs. e. E. G.
burn, last week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04

CHAPTER XIV-We build dam and
make a pool and water garden in the
brook.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Barnard Hoyt of Lyn-
don recently visited their daughter,
Mrs. A. J. Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Coburn and
daughter, Clara, are spending the week
at H. A. and c. E. Coburn's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. A. Coburn and Mr..
and Mrs. H. w. Bennett attended the
funeral of Mrs. Charles Leach at East
Burke Sunday.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
CUSTOM WOOL CARDINC

Hand Spun Knitting Yarns sl.1e per pounds
Parcel Post extra wooden rolls, wool left
at O. w. Seaver's, North Troy; F. w. Carr g
Burke, before Sept. 20. carded and returned
at lOc per bundle extra. Season closes at
mill, Nov. Is. H. O. GAY. Barton, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-04
PROVED BY TIME.

AFTER A LAPSE OF MORE THAN
TWO YEARS, Mr.. Sawyer said: ST
haven't had occasion to use any
kidney medicine since I used Doan's
Kidney Pills. am pleased to again
recommend this incidence
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Sawyer has twice publicly rec.
commended. Foster Milburn Co..
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Sharp County record., 1916-04-14

lieves will stop the drain on the
states treasury A pure election
Law is another proposition upon
which he was elected.
HIS STANDING At HONE
1t has been said generally that a
man Is more popular away from
home than with the people who
know him in everyday life. That
DR., Broush is an exception to the
rule was indicated at Fayetteville
Saturday after the primary When
Dr. and Mrs Broueh stepped from
the train they were greeted by sew.
eral thousand residents Of Fayette.
vile, beside q thousand or more
students Of the university. who
greeted their iayoritc and his coin.
panion with unstinled enthusiasm
Dr. Bfough declined to make a
speech In Fayetteville during the
campaign gn-Arkansas Democrat
Sharp County record., 1916-04-14

What's become o. the ole feller who
used t boast that he didn' read no
newspaper an that he Jest knoved
what be knoEed?
Tn country used { be filed with
such folks They were sot in ther
ways an they thought that ther was
some catch t newspaper. But they
believed everything they heard an half
o everything they seen. While ther
WIZ lots O. ignorance, tn bliss WIZ
scarcely noticeable an poor quality.
T'day tn daily newspaper penetrates
ever nook an corner in tn land car
ryin' with it tn news o. tn world.
t'gether with tn council proceedin's
o. Kokomo, pictures o lesdin' club
women an recipes fer crealned car
rots.
Some folks subscribe fer daily
newspaper, some borrow it just t
read while others take it. Ever'bud-
dy gifts hold o. a daily newspaper
somehow. Even tn farmer who lives
ten miles Of tn pike wants his news
while it's hot. 1t gives him somethin
{ discuss besides a new calf when he
gathers his family about him in tn
eyenin'. The daily newspaper takes
a society vonan's mind of her finger
nails an it causes tn purple magnate
I ponder as he sets scrooched down
in his easy chair after tn days man.
ipulations No matter who you are or
where you live there is no reason in
III world why you should not be able
t talk glibly an without hesitation on
tn affairs o. tn country.
In tn ole days folks in the cross
Sharp County record., 1916-04-14
Mother Skins eusares Down tn Soap Ads While
Fath. Expresses Hearty Approval snsn Editorial
By KIN HUBBARD

road towns used TO worry along an
wait fer a weekly newspaper an then
all tn out-o.toEn news they'd git vuI
lunbago ad from Boston IN daily
newspaper has been tn principal fac
tor in tn development o this country.
It's civilizin' influences have changed
our whole style o. pitchin' an filed
us with ambition.
There's no prettier sight than tn
modern family when it is possible I
git its members t'gether for an hour
settin' around a cory CRATE devourtn
tn contents o. a daily newspaper,
Mother skins over tn burglaries an
settles down t the soap ads. while ia.
ther expresses hearty approval o a
stingin' editorial on tn Monroe doc
trine. The boys argue Ger tn provess
O. some bullet headed pug, while tn
girls set on tn blue plush davenport
an knock everbuddy in tn society
column.
It's impossible { estimate tn value
o. newspaper publicity fer good. It
drags tn four fusher int n lime
light an keeps tn spineless public
servant on the Job. While Tiers some
things in this country that don't Just
exactly come up { our ideas o right
an wrong we should thank tn daily
newspaper that we're still permitted
{ breathe.
No normally constituted feller kin
read a daily newspaper without con-
gratulatin' himself that he hsint in
jail or runnin fer somethin'.
protected By the Adams Esrspspe7
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