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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-11-24
MRS. WEBSTER REMEMBERED,

The first prize pecans at the West
Texas State fair at San Angelo, have
been presented to Mrs. L. A. Webster
of Whiting, VT, by the exhibitor,
George Richardson of San Angelo,
Texas. Mr.. Richardson, who is one of
the managers of the fair, is a big
hearted son of Scotland, and owns a
ranch of $4,000 acres down in the
Concho county where the mesquite and
the sacaweista grows.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-11-24
SUPT. KENT WILL PREACH.

Rev. B. M. Kent of Rutland, the dis
trict superintendent of the Burlington
District of the Troy Conference, will
make his annual Sunday visit to the
local Methodist church next Sunday
and preach at the morning service.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-11-24
D. S. PIE ASE
FURNITURE UNDERTAKING
RNITUR

The Goal of the Entire Family is the Comfortable Home.
We striving assist you gain this end by offering you
furniture distinctive in quality and design the lowest prices
Remember that carry the biggest stock Addison County
We show you
Mattresses Ranging in Price from So 95 to $25 90
Beds from 5 90 to 80 90.
good assortment of Dressers and Choners all the Pop
uar Finishes Crcassion Walnut Birds Eye Maple CHARTERED
IOak Plain Oak, Etc. Bear in mind that also carry
choice collection of Framed Pictures and Picture Modngs
If you planning to have framing done during the
Holidays it is well to bring it in early
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
New Mexico.

During the first half of August the Mogollon Mines Co. treated 2,013 tons of ore. producing 1,eO0 pounds of gold and silver bullion and several tons of concentrates.
 The Abo Canon Copper Mining Company, operating in the Manzano mountains in Torrance county. filed incorporation papers, the capitaliza. tion being sl5O.OO0 of which 32.100 is paid up.
 Preparations are being made by Manager Sully, of the Chino Copper Company at Silver City, for the recep, ton of the American Institute of Min. ing Engineers, who will hold their an. nual meeting this year in visiting the big copper camps of New Mexico and Arizona.
 An important copper strike has been made by F. G. Smith of Fl Paso in the Burro mountain copper mines fourteen miles west of Cutter. He has now a face of ore eight feet wide in the stope, about 300 feet in from the portal of the tunnel, which aver. ages 10 per cent copper. The ore is both oxide and sulphide.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Quality, Not Quantity.

The widespread use of the automo- bile Is. without doubt, largely respon- sible for the increasing number of fishermen on brooks easily accessible. From almost any city, an angler or a group of anglers can In an hour or two hours time run out to some se- questered stream and, If they are skilled in the art of fishing, return home at night with respectable show ing of trout. While big catches are often made oh near-at-home streams, the angler should not anticipate them. If he is thus recompensed for a days try he will be far happier than If he starts in the morning with big ex- pectations and returns at night with a slightly filled creel.
 The true angler for brook trout should not measure his days sport solely by the number of trout he catches. Quantity to him Is only a part of the game, and not the most inter- esting part.-Outing.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Fortunes in Stamps.

Famous stamp collectors of the United States include George H. WOrthington, Cleveland manufacturer whose stamps actually are worth more than Sl.OOO,OOO; Henry J. Dunveen, art dealer, and Senator Ernest R. Acker- man of New Jersey, whose collections are worth about S6OO. 900 each Charles Lathrop Pack of Lakewood, x. J., for merly president of the American Con- servation association; Joseph T. Log fer, automobile manufacturer: Theo- dore Steinway, maker of planes Henry C. Gibson, manufacturer of Philadelphia; Brig. Gen. Henry Hill Brandholz, at present in charge of the Plattsburg training camp; J. H. Towne of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing company, Bridgeport; Charles E. Hat field of Boston, formerly chairman of the Massachusetts Republican state committee. and J. c. Morgenthau brother of the one-time ambassador to Turkey.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01

the bread and the stiffened sheep. Then in the twilight ends the festival of San Geronimo.
 The spectators from outside uiay stream downward. They have seen a program so unique. so inoffensive and yet so pronounced In its features open to the world. that some will realize they might have journeyed to the cobble-stones of Europe. the steppes of Asia and the sands of Africa to witness one much less vivid with the personality of different race.
 At Taos, which has not lost one bit of Its oldness, at all times can be found a colony of artists and writers, for mo- where in all America can be found such rich native material. Among the artists of national or international rep utation at Taos this month are: Jo- seph Henry Sharp, Bert G. Phillips and Ralph Meyers, who make their perma- nent home at Taos; E. Irving COuSe and W. Herbert Dunton of New York, who have erected studios and live there a portion of the year; Robert ffenrl ana r.. L. bluElensCHeIu Ol NC" York, O. F.. Berninghaus of St. Louis. Walter Ufer of Chicago, Julius Rols- hoven of Florence, Italy, Mrs J. H. Wilson of Seattle. Sheldon Parsons, Victor Higgins of Chicago. Miss Doris Rosenthal of Los Angeles, and Miss Helen Dunlap of Whittier. Cal.
 Many an illustrious pioneer has called Taos home. Col. Kit Carson lived and Is buried there; Gov. Charles Bent was assassinated there February r., 1Si7, during the Pueblo insurrec- tiOn. Col. Cerra St. Nrain, Judge Beau bien and many others lived there at one time or another. The first news paper west of the Missouri river was published in Taos in 1S37.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
The Office a Home.

young fashionable was graduated fro,o Yale in June. His father is set- ting him up in business. This father asked us if we would not aid in the se- Iecting of the office furnishing for the young man. The father said: spend whatever you like. Not because have ,noney. but because when man works in . place for so many hours 1t should he made as comfortable as possible. Many men spend more actual hours in ,heir offices than they do in their non,.s Their offices should therefore b. as attractive as their homes- That ls my theory. and am going to prae- ace 1t fer my son
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01


 ing their ancient community houses' tillIng their ancient fields and tena- ciously observing their ancient customs.
 The route from Colorado down through northern New Mexico to old Santa Fe traverses the most fertile and picturesque section of this storied Pueblo country, where the work of the living and of the dead are alike promi- nent and supplies easy access to that one greatest of these Indian cOmmunl- ties in all the Southwest-the Pueblo of San Geronimo de Taos.
 NorthernmOst of the Pueblos It Is by map 5 miles northeast of Santa Fe, and by wagon and auto road only % miles east from the railroad station at Taos Junction, where automobile stages meet the trains. The Pueblo was visited as far back as 1540, by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Alvar- ado, of COrOnadO's army. It was made a Spanish mission, given a priest, and christened San Geronimo (Saint Je- rome), as early as 1917. and since those dates has changed little.
 Here. annually, on September 30. the 300 inhabitants of the two massy terraced clay community houses, which rise tier on tier to the height of five stories, celebrate the most i'm portant Of their tribal feasts and dances-the festival of San Geronimo Day; dedicated, ostensIbly, to their patron saint, but really a thanksgiving to the sun-gOd for the harvest. This festival. so old that the patri- archs of the Pueblo know not its be- from all over the United States, and Is attended as well by other Pueblos. by Apaches and Navajos. Accommoda- tions for the AmericanOs are found in the adjacent town of San Fernandez de Taos, two and half miles by a | good road, where the Mexican pOpula- don of the surrounding country add their fiesta merry-makings to those of | the Taosans.
 Beyond the observance of those or | dinary pOlitenesses, which devolve up- on any intruders into private grounds | tfor the Pueblo owns its lands), guests are unrestricted; and therefore, rarely is such opportunity given to witness | a truly Indian celebration. Spectators should arrive on the morning of the 29th, if possible. thus they will be en. i aDiec to see the daily life of the Pueblo and in the evening will witness 1 the ceremonies by which the feast 1t. self is ushered in.
 These are the raising of the 5O-foot offering pole, in the Pueblo plaza; the gayly attended mass in the little chapel and the mystic sun dance In the twi. light, by trained dancers waving vel low aspen boughs and chanting the sun danc" song.
 At night sacred rites. to which none but initiates are admitted, are per. formed in the underground estufas or council chambers; and fin the town oi San Fernandez Is held a grand baile or ball 10 which all strangers are in vited by the Mexican hosts.
 On San Geronimo Day. the 30th, ev
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01

erybOdy, of every complexion, tiocks early to the Pueblo, and before the sun is well above the beautiful Taos range of mountains the grounds are alive with q strangely mixed throng. and with fiesta booths where are displayed for sale melons, pinOn nuts, blankets and scarfs of native manufacture, Pueblo pottery and Apache baskets.
 To the tip of the tall pole are hung. by nimble Taosan, the harvest offer ings of melons, bread and slain sheep. Another mass is celebrated in the little chapel, and the statue of Saint Jerome is borne out, under a canopy, and respectfully installed In bower of aspen bOughs, to preside over the days doings, as 1t were.
 A foot race by selected runners, symbOllcally painted, from either casa grande or great house." is followed by dance, again. to celebrate the vic tory, and from the roofs of the tri- umphant, casa grande women shower the dancers with bread in token of the suns bounty.
 At noon open house Is kept, and to the generous tables anyone is wei comed, whether or not he Is expected to leave coin as his expression of thanks for hospitality. Extensive shop ping is indulged in, from booth to booth, and the grounds have the as- pect of an Oriental bazaar. until short ly upon mid-afternoon appears the crowning feature of the day-the his tOric delight-makers.
 Of lineage and clan older than Hny records extant in this romantic South west, these clowns, seven in number and grotesquely adorned. perform their licensed antics, until finally, at sum- set. they swarm up the smooth pole and as their reward detach the melons,
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Old-Time Grain Reappears.

A grain called ''guautli" or "huautli" is mentioned in old Mexican chronicles as among the articles of tribute paid by the Mexican pueblos to Montezuma. The identity of this grain has long been a mystery. In recent years wild and cultivated varieties of a grain, ap- parently the ancient guautli, have been found in Sinaloa and other states of Mexico, where the natives use 1t for food when maize Is scarce. Species that are similar if not quite the same are cultivated for food In Peru and Bo- Iivia as well as in Tibet and the noun. tainous regions of India.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Wyoming.

oil per day. The hole will be put on down to the sand which the drillers expect to reach in less than 1,500 feet
 Estimates made by State Land Commissioner s. G. Hopkins of the productivity of state school lands for oil places the total acreage at approx imately 1,500 acres.
 The Rocky Ford Oil and Develop ment Company, recently organized by Sundance men to operate in the Rocky Ford district is making rapid progress in the sale of its oil lots
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Colorado.

The Molybdenum Mines Company has been incorporated at Denver.
 Work on the Camp Bird tunnel at Ouray has progressed over 2,00O feet.
 A lOO-ton ore concentration plant Is under erection three miles north of Minturn.
 Ore shipments from Breckenridge district are running from 1l5 to 12o carloads each month.
 A strike has been made in the Red mountain in the Leadville district as saying s3.12O gold per ton.
 Dividends of sl22.OOO a month will be paid to the stockholders of the Cresson mine at Cripple Creek.
 The Nelson mine at Ward. operated by three men, last month produced 6Iz tons of tungsten concentrates.
 The Revenue mining property in the Mount Sneffels district has been acquired by the St. John Mines Com pany.
 The construction of a 50-ton mill for the Keystone Mining and Reduction Company near Boulder has com menced.
 Extensive Improvements at the plant of the United States Portland Cement Company at Concrete are un- | der way.
 Fred C. Wood, Stanley M. Walker and Jchn II. Bender have incorporated the Cadiz Mining Company with a capitalization of slO0,00O.
 A bond and lease on the Bismark mine near Caribou has been secured by Fred Carlson and August Wilim. | zik The lessees are taking out silver ore that runs forty ounces of silver to 1 the ton.
 A cleanup at the Livingston mine | at Sugar Loaf yielded thirty eight | pounds of gold bullion and a twelve, ! pound brick of base bullion, bringing the total output for the year near the s5000O mark.
 The purchase of the new Mount | Champion mine in Lackawanna gulch at Leadville is under consideration by a group of eastern capitalists who rs gently inspected the property. A val uation placed upon the mine is said to have been close to sl,00O,0O0.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Gums and Health.

Two drops es camphor on your toothbrush will gve your mouth the freshest, cleanest feeling imaginable, will make your gums rosy and abso- luteiy prevent anything like cold sores or affections of the tongue. The gums. by the way, are barometers of your condition. If they are clear, bright red, you are in good health while if your blood is thin and want ing in the mysterious red corpuscies that make one healthy. the gums will be pale pink. or if you are in very had way, indeed. and much in need of a course of dialyzed iron, they will ,e almost white.-LeOnard Keent Hirshberg.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Sentiment Voiced at Last.

'Tt must be a great comfort to have Josh at home for his summer vaca- ton"
 Yep" replied Farmer Corntossel. "I dunno when I've been more comforted than was to hear Josh tell one of the summer boarders that us folks set the best table in the township an that any body who didn't like it could git out. It's what me an mother often wanted to say to Josh hisself. but we didn't have the nerve"
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
A Conservative.

"what sort of view does Dubwaite take of lifeT'
 "The sort that is not incompatible with an easy chair in a club window, something to drink at his elbow and a good cigar in his mouth."
 'Tn other wordsT
 "while granting that there may be room for improvement in this world, 1t does not come within the range of his immediate observation"
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
A Hard Turn

Redd-In a new automobile signal for following vehicles hands are illum- inated to indicate the direction that a car Is going 10 turn as the driver presses buttons on the steering wheel.
 Greene-Weil, now, about what would the signal look like to indicate the car was about to turn tur.lef
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Immune.

These futurists make me sick ! The idea of calling that stun of theirs arti Why, If had six-year-old boy who couldn't make better pictures than those I'd spank him."
 "Yes. but the trouble is most of these futurists are too big to spank"
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
After a Stormy Session

"Rafferty," said MT. DoIsn, have you studied parliamentary law?"
 "I have. Parliamentary law has got to be rewritten so as to prevent one gentleman from throwing a brickbat when another raises a point of or der"
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Shocking Remedy.

"Pa, the Jones baby has got the measles" "IndeedT "Yes, and the city doctors came and insulated the whole family"
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
aeina ldaored.

"Flubdub refused to sign my petition fo have the war stopped"
 "He Is somewhat miffed. He head ed a petition last month and the war Aasn't endeds
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Helping the Doctor.

First Voluntary Aid-This patients temperature is 105 degrees. What shall I do?
 Second Voluntary Aid-Put him down 100. The doctor gets so nervous If it's more.-Sydney Bulletin.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
No Need.

Don't make a noise, dear, but there's a man in the room with his hand in your clothes pockets"
 "Why need you worry about fiat Yours was there frst.'
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Misnomer.

"Why have you named your play i The Standstillf" "Why notT'
 -How do you ever expect 1t to get runr'
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
Literal Description.

Monday is a fine day for motor- ing"
 "Why Monday especiallyT
 Because then the Sunday speed. CTS pay up."
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01

HE great tribal dances or the northern Indians have almost vanished from plains and bad lands, ana those which remain have become perverted under the demands of white clvi- liZatiOn. But in tine wide Southwest of New Mexico and Arizona, still exist an independent people, the az ricnItrrnl pnnhlnS. ncCupy-
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01

NFiZOrd
 A rich strike of ore is reported on the 2OO-foot level in the Maid of Sun shine mine near Courtland.
 At Oatman the Arizona Central, at a depth of 36O feet in the shaft, struck what is believed to be a feeder to the main vein.
 The Wallapai Metals Company has started development work on it's prop erty about fourteen miles east O! Kingman, near the Telluride Chief and the Enterprise mines.
 Simultaneously with the installation of a centrifugal gold separator, and the starting up Of its mill, comes the information that the Gold Dust mine has made a big strike at Oatman.
 A rich strike seems probable at the Goldroad Bonanza at Oatman. Al first there were a few stringers in the crosscut, but now the andesite pans so many colors as 10 classify it almost as ore.
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01
WESTERN MINING AND OIL
 NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Metal Market Prices. Spelter, Denyer-ss.26.
 Copper, casting-s26.62h. Lead, New York-$6.10.
 Bar silver-6SAc.
 Boulder, Colo.-Tungsten concen. trates, 60 per cent. SIS to s23 per unit. Crude ores. 60 per cent, SIS to s23; 25 per cent, s9.iO to s10; 10 per cent. s7.s0 to s900 per unit
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-01

The Molybdenum Mines Company has been incorporated at Denver.
 Work on the Camp Bird tunnel at Ouray has progressed over 2.OOO feet
Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-16
Give Your Storage
Battery a Drink;
It Will Help It

Ii is a very easy matter in the sum
tner time when a motor car is used
every day to grow careless about
some of the important parts of the
car.
Because of the increased amount OF
driving, however, and especially driv-
ing at night, the storage battery can
not be neglected if the owner wishes
to get results from his starting and
lighting system.
A storage battery needs plenty of
water in the summer time, just like
a human being. On account of the
warmer weather, a battery should
receive pure distilled water every
week. The reason for this is explained
by Elmer Rosengren of the Ne
braska Storage ARTERY company, who
says:
'Warm weather makes the solution
In the battery evaporate quickly. This
solution is what gives the battery its
life and if allowed to get below level
with the top of the battery plates,
these plates will be exposed to the air
and the exposed portion will be dam
aged by oxidation.
ain addition to this damage to the
battery, if the owner neglects to fill
the cells with water, the generator on
his car will overhead his battery and
ruin it in a very short time"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-16
AGE OF RUBBER"
IS NEAR AT HAND
Goodrich Company Predicts
Bigger and Cheaper Supply
in Coming Years.
NEW USES TO BE FOUND

Akron, O., July 1870 many in
dustries are face to face with con-
stantly decreasing supplies of raw ma
terials and ever increasing demands
due to population growth, that the
contrast afforded by the rubber bust
ness looms up wildly.
In 1905, according to figures given
out by The B. F. Goodrich company,
uncultivated or native" rubber com
prised $4,000 tons, while in 1914 the
production had dropped back to 10000
tons. But cultivated or plantation
rubber in the same space of time had
risen from l45 tons OF $4,000 tons.
In 1917, the Goodrich company
estimates that while native rubber
production will have fallen to $4,000
tons, plantation rubber will amount
to $4,000 tons. By 1921, it is pre-
dicted, 100000 tons of cultivated rub
Der will be available, while but $4,000
tons of native rubber will be pro-
duced.
Many New Uses.
Thus, 1917 will show total in
crease of 50 per cent in crude rub
Der supplies over 1914, due to the
fast-growing production on planta-
tons. And when raw rubber reaches
that level of cost which vastly in
creased supplies would indicate, my
Rad new uses will be added to those
for which the present relatively lin
tied production is required.
As ranches and open ranges be-
come converted into farms, and the
number of cattle decreases, lessening
the supply of leather, while the popu-
lation, which must wear shoes and the
factories, which must have betting in
crease, rubber will step in more and
more to furnish better service at even
lower ost
Illustrations of these changes are
already at hand. The B. F. Goodrich
company has announced Textan, a
composition sole. Goodrich rubber
betting is fast supplanting expensive
leather betting and is performing the
work as we'll,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-16
AUTO CLUB WILL
TACKLE SPACE HOGS
Crusade Planned Against the
Drivers Who Waste Room
in Parking Oars.
WARNING CARDS POSTED

The Omaha Automobile club has
decided to get after the parking
space hogs" Many drivers parking
cars on the pavement carelessly take
up space that ought to serve for
two cars. The directors of the club
have had supply OF cards printed,
and when their special traffic cop
sees car straddling line he will
leave a card for the owner explain
ing that he is in wrong"
If this does not cure the evil speed
lily the club probably will go before
the council and ask for an ordinance
making it misdemeanor to park a
car straddling line.
Boosters Coming July "a.
The Highland Cutoff Highway as
Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-16

ISOLATION booster trip over the new
highway. postponed from June rs be-
cause Of the rains, has been sched-
uled for Monday, July "a The run
will start from Central City at s
o'clock, touching Hordville, Polk,
Stromsburg. Ulysses, Dwight, Valpa-
riso, Weston, Wahoo, Mead and Val
ley, and is expected to finish at Oma-
ha about p. m.
The boosters will visit Samson at
the Den in the evening and run back
the next day. The promoters expect
that the farmers will be through
harvest by that time and that there
will be big turnout.
The road has been marked as far
west as Grand Island already. 1t is
now being marked to Hall county
and the promoters expect to have it
marked clear through to Denver by
fall. From Central City west it will
follow the route OF the Lincoln high
way
Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-16
Girl Motorcycles to
Tour from Coast to Coast

To cross the continent alone on a
motorcycle is the adventuresome idea
of two New York girls, the Misses
Adeline and Augusta Van Buren,, who
left the metropolis July 4 for San
Francisco. They have made careful
preparation for their hazardous jour-
ney, their motorcycles being spe-
cially designed solo machines, equip
ped with Firestone non-skid tires.
This trip is not due to fad of any
kind. Practical common sense is
back of it. Both Of these daring girls
are firm believers in national prepar
edness and they hope to advertise
the cause by this ocean to ocean mo-
torcycle trip. Further, they believe
a successful journey will prove that
in time of stress women can render
real practical help as dispatch riders.