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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
A STRONG DENIAL

(By Cyrus H. Mccormick, President
 of the International Harvester Co.)
 The statement before a subcommit- tee of the Senate at Washington, as re- ported in dispatches, that the Inter national Harvester company furnish ed money for a Yucatan revolution is utterly untrue. It has never, directly or indirectly, lhad any connection with political conditions in Yucatan or anywhere else in Mexico.
 This charge grows out of the fact that the Harvester Company is large purchaser of sisaI, the principal pro- duct of Yucatan. Its purchases of si- sal were made through Avelfno Monies, a wealthy merchant of Mer- ida, Yucatan, who purchased the si- sal and paid the planters with his own funds.
 In the regular course of business, in February, 1915, Montes had made a contract for sisa1 for the Harvester Company's account with the Yucatan Regulating Committee, the agency through which the Yucatan Govern ment controlled and still controls the sisa1 market.
 When only a small part of this pur- chase had been delivered, the Govern ment of Yucatan peremptor1Iy not1- fled Montes that no more stsa1 would be delivered on this contract unless he issued to a YUcatan Government Commission a letter of credit for New York funds in exchange for Yuoatan currency. Under this compulsion Montes issued a letter of credit, and afterwards made a payment on ir in New York entirely with his own funds. None of the Harvester Com pany's money was used in the transaction The Harvester Com-- pany did not know of it until some time after the transaction was com pIeted If any of Montes' money, thus advanced under the compulsion of his government, was used by the Yuca- tan Commissi oners for buying muni- tions, it was without the knowledge and beyond the control of the liar veSter company.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
Exclusive Service The Survey Press Bureau)
BY CHARLES F. WELLER

For it's recreational value, if not for the worth of it's dramatic art, the Chi1dren's Playhouse of Columbus. Ohio. seems to me important inter estine and worthy of emulation by other communities. s'By school chil- dren for school children is it's slo- gan.
 All children who wish to. take part are invited to do so- The aim is not to pick out talented stars who can give a finished performance. but to provide recreation and wh olesome development through exercising unf- versal dramatic instinots- For ex- ample, in helping to organize the cast for Frances Hodgeon Burnett s, The Little Princess, Mrs. Sullivan wife of the director, complained when one specially unprornising boy was included Then, she and her hus- band reminded themselves that out Of twenty iIapossibles who had been cast for parts earlier in the season five are now numbered among the most responsible players, while the other fifteen are no longer poor in their parts.
 Every Child Sees It.
 Tn the Chamber of Commerce au- ditorium a performance is given ev- cry Saturday afternoon. Tickets are distributed free to each of the schools in rotation As only seven or eight hundred good seats are avail able, the performance must be re- peated many times to give every school child a chance to see it.
 Three or four casts are trained for the same p1ay-not only to give ev- eryone who wishes a chance to take part, but also to have substitutes ready for any performance in case measles or humps should. suddenly strike down a player. Old King Cole, dramatic assem'blage of Mother Goose rhymes for children,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

| requires forty-four actors. s'Just to touch up the eyebrows and cheeks of l forty-four children so their faces won't look pasty is quite a tasz,' said Director Sullivan; Mrs. Sullivan does i it.'' She also cuts out the paper patterns for the costumes of si1ko- line, cannbric or outing flannel and a seaInstress does the sewing.
 It costs about $40 a week to oper- ate the Childrems Playh ouse. and this includes carfare for the performers. Evid entity, the salary of the director, J. Clarence Sullivan, is not large. He is a newspaper man, san enthusiast, who gives his afternoons and even Engs to rehearsals, to writing his own plays, selecting others and planning the many details. The Playhouse is conducted by the Public Recreation Commission of Columbus, of which R. s. Wambold is the chief executive officer in corporation with the Board of Education, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Drama League of America
 Competes With Movies. About s1.2eo has been raised for the Playhouse since it's work began a year ago. Of this, a goodIy sum has come from advertisements in the program which has been made to appeal to business men as an attrac- ! tive combination of philanthropy with a unique opportunity to educate children in the value of local pro- ducts.
 .tThe play was pretty good" said one of the schooIboy auditors, "but you know like the wild west movies better" It is a question. naturally, as to how strongly the children will be held by the occasional opportunity of seeing their comrades in attractive plays. But there can be no doubt that the grammar grade pupils who take part are gripped with stronger power than even the movies can ex-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

ert.
 As looked on at a rehearsal and saw the patient resourcefu1neSs and the keen interest with which the boys and girls were learning to read life into their lines, I wondered why this is not recognized as one of the most effective means of vital education to be sustained and extended as a func- ton of the schools, the players being given some credit in English for the work they do. But, evidently, this is not necessary, for the activity at tracts on it's merits. The children love this recreationa1 exercise of their dramatic instincts. Older people would like it, too We ought to see .-in playgrounds, park field houses schools and churches-a large devel- opment of popular dramatics as one essential form of leisure-time conser- vation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
Nineteen Year Old
 Youth Made Major

London, March 7.-A1though barely 19 years of age, Henry Pattinson, of Ruskington, Lincolnshire, has just been promoted to be a major in the British army. He has risen by sheer merit from a private in a schoolbOy battalion.
 Pattinson's father is a minor town official in Ruskington. When the war opened the boy was at Haileybury school where he had a greater repu- tation as a football player than as a sch o1ar, although he was regarded as too young for a place on the schools first eleven. In the school military battalion his superiors reported that he shows no special aptitude for mill tary duties." but as soon as the war broke out he offered his services.
 He was rejected on his first two ap-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
TRUMBULLt

MT. and Mrs. Albert Christie enteFa. tained guests at nine tables of whist at their home Saturday evening. ThosG who enjoyed MT. and Mrs. Christie'E hospitality were MT. and Mrs. Bura F. Beach, Miss Cora E. Beach, MT. and Mrs. Charles N. Evitts, Mir. ana Mrs. Howard s. Beach, MT. and Mrs, Joseph M. Tucker. Miss Mildred B. Tucker, Henry Blair, MT. and Mrs ' Rol1in E. Burton, Catherine Burton. f Edwin Evitts, Ethel Evitts, Miss Lulu < Bowker, Miss Fannie Bowker, Robert Bowker, MT. and Mrs. Samuel Ward MT. and Mrs. Charles Ensign, Miss Marcia williams, MT. and Mrs. Brown MT. and Mrs. Arthur S. Plumb, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Beardsley-
 Harry P. Burr of Daniels Farms i1i confined to his home by illness.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles N. Evitts en-4 tertained Sunday Mrs. Evitts' mother Mrs Charles Myatt of Bridgeport
 Miss Ruth LinIey was @ guest Sum day at the home of MT. and Mrs. Ar thur S. Burr in Daniels Farms.
 The seIectmen held their regular monthly meeting at the town clerks office Monday afternoon Routine business was transa cted-
 Mrs Stephen J. Parks has returned home after spending several days with Mrs. Austin Smith in Bridgeport MT. Smith and two children, Laura and William, have been i'll with measles
 Mr and Mrs. John L.. Beach of Wa terbury were Sunday guests at the home of MT. and Mrs. Banford s. Beach in Long Hill. Miss Dorothy Beach, who has been their guest for a few days, returned home with them.
 Mrs. Francis Jenkins has returned to her home in Long Hill after a four weeks visit in New Jersey.
 Miss Pauline Perry, who has been i'll for several weeks. has so far recov- cred as to be able to return to her work in Bridgeport
 Miss Etta Broadway, who has been caring for her father, has returned to New York. Mir. Broadway, who has been seriously i'll. is improving but very slowly.
 MT. and Mrs. Samuel Ward will en- certain a, party of friends at Whtse Thursday evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

plications, but he persisted. and the authorities finally stretched a point and he won appointment as second lieutenant in a competitive examiEa.- tion in September, 1914.
 When he became captain last June he was the youngest captain then on active duty in France. His regfv ment saw very severe fighting at LOos and after the series of battles there he found himself the senior surviving officer. Until new colonel was up- pointed he was in charge of his regi- ment, and he acquitted himself so we'll that he was in due course re- warded by promotion to his preseu place as major.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
Hhy Suffer Vim Backache, Kidneys or Rheumatism :?
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A N U
g Ghen1sfry.
 
New Remedy for Kidney Bladder and all Uric Acid Troubles
GhemfSry.
Eminent Met

Doctor Ebere and Doctor Brahwaite well
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

 furnishing with clue the principles upon which to be treated, and accurate knowledge concerning the of disease thus be obtained If backache scadng urine frequent urnation bother distress you if acid the blood caused rheumatism gout sciaca, you suspect kidney bladder trouble just write DOCTOR PIERCE, the Surgical Institute Buffalo, N r.. send sample of urine and describe symptoms. You will receive free medical advice after Dr Ferce's chemist has examined the specimen which wiA be carefully done without charge, and you will be under obligation. Doctor Pierce, during many years of experimentation has discovered new remedy which removing uric acid from the system. If you suffering from backache pains of rheumatism, go your best druggist and ask for 50cent box of 'Anurrc put up Pferce's Favorite Prescription for weak women and al Discovery for the blood have been favoraby known They standard remedies to-day, we'll as
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

The body of a well dressed woman about 30 years of age was found froz- en in the ice of Baby Creek, Detroit, by boys playing there.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

'Baby Week. has brought out @ lot of splendid advice from people who never had one
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
With the Naval Veterans.

Nowhere in the entire country fs-
Memorial day solemnized with greater
profundity of feeling than at the
United States Naval home at Phila-
delphia where the gray-haired vet
Grams of Uncle Sans sea fighters,
many of whom have seen service In
the seven seas, are passing their de-
clining years in well-earned comfort
Their'Memorial day memories are Far
ragut and Porter, Foote and Winslow,
Cushing and Truxton, Dewey and
Schley, of the battles of the Missis-
sippi river, the historic running of the
batteries in Mobile bay, the epoch
marking fight of the Kearsage and Ala
bama, and in more recent days, of the
famous battle of Manila bay that made
us an Asiatic power, and the battle
of Santiago which ended Spanish rule
in the western hemisphere. For the
naval home houses veterans of all
these battles so decisive in the shap-
ing of American destiny-battles
which make glorious chapters in the
history of the United States navy.
And the home has likewise sheltered
naval veterans of the war of 1872.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
Laughter.

We talk much about wholesome
food, fresh air, pure air, the absence
of infection, and other hygienic sub
jects. But whoever heard of organ
lied attempts to promote laughter?
OF course such endeavors are not
often needed, but, really, there is hard
ly thing that helps so much to pro-
mote health as does good, honest,
whole-souled laughter
Laughter blows away foolish no
lions, sweeps out the blues, shakes up
the dry bones, stirs new life into every
corner of the brain. Laughter fills the
lungs with new air and blows out the
old; opens the eyes to distorted view
points; clears the way for better logic
with new basis; uncovers a multitude
of sins. Laughter is the friend of the
world; laughter is the only absolutely
human characteristic. l mean, the
laughter of humor and genuine fun.
cit is true that some animals make
faces and noises; that is about what
some supposedly human folks call
laughter, too.)
Promote laughter; not giggles, nor
smiles, nor sarcastic grins, but laugh
ter-honest, funny, side-splitting, rib
twisting, friend-making laughter. So
shall you be also friend of the world,
and partner of gods. "-Osteopathic
Magazine
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
WHEN RUN DOWN
Hoods SarsapariIIa, the Reliable
Tonic Medicine, Builds Up.

The reason why you feel so tired
all the time at this season is that
your blood is impure and impover-
ished. 1t lacks vitality. 1t is not
the rich, red blood that gives life to
the whole body, perfects digestion
and enables all the organs to per-
form their functions as they should.
From any druggist get Hood
Sarsaparilla. 1t will make you feel
better, look better, eat and sleep
better. 1t is the old reliable tried
and true all-the-year-round blood
purifier and enricher, tonic and APP
petizer. 1t revitalizes the blood,
and is especially useful in building
up the debilitated and rundown.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is helping
thousands at this time Of year. Let
it help you. Get bottle today and
begin taking it at once. Be sure to
get Hoods.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
All Are Heroes,

Heroes are they who respond to
the nations need"
Our nation has never asked for men
in vain. With Spartan bravery moth
ers give their sons, wives their hus-.
bands and maidens their sweethearts
when the country calls. Many of them
will never return. Others will come
back to lay their diseased and broken
frames beside the hearths of their
youth. Some as by divine protection
seem to have enchanted lives and re-
turn as strong as when they left. They
all are heroes if they have felt the
thrill of sacrifice and never hesitated
in the face of duty.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
A Bank That Maintains a Ser,
vice of Real Benefit to Its
Customers

Many people imagine that because
their account is small in the beginning
that it will not be acceptable to the bank.
The officers of the Union Saving Bank
and Trust Co. wish all such people to
know that even the smallest account is
welcome, for they know that once start
ed, it is sure to grow. Some of our larg-
est accounts have so started and, be-
cause of our experiences along this line,
we invite all depositors to make use of
the services of this Bank. We have the
facilities and service to meet every bank
ing need.
COME.1IN AND LET US GET AC-
QUAINTED AND TALK 1T OVER.
THE UNION SAVINGS BANK &
TRUST COMPANY OF MORRISVILLE
VT, W. M. SARGENT, TREASURER.
adv.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
WOlcott Man Prize Winner

The following letter written by for
mer Morrisville man for the New Eng
land Homestead and signed A. l.. II. won
first prize over several hundred in COZ
test, each letter being in reply to one
written by Mrs. Harriet Hitchcock. a
strong advocate for equal suffrage. The
letter is reproduced in part, only
Any student of history knows that
| Mrs. Hitchcock does not belong to the
! class of women that have worked should
er to shoulder with the men and done
their equal part in the building of this
great nation of ours and placing it in
shape so that in this great orld's crisis
all the rest of the world is looking to see
what we are going to do. The mothe RS
of our Washingtons, our Thomas Jeffer-
sons, Lincolns, and McKinleys were not
the class of women that Mrs. Hitchcock
would have us believe there is such a
plenitude of.
1t is good thing that Mrs. B. A. Fl.
married a man with means to furnish
her with steam heat, automobiles, etc.,
but will guarantee that Mr.. FL Inherit
ed his property, that he has a room in
the barn where he communes with his
friends, that when his neighbors see him
they refer to him as Mrs. H's husband.
L know another woman; she was a
Vermont schoolma'am when I found
her, graduate in the Greek and Latin
course OF school that prepares students
for college, with teachers course in a
state normal school for good measure.
She can read the war news in German,
French, or English. She has painted
several pictures that have taken first
money at the county fair competing; with
professionals, and the Judge had more
than local reputation.
| will tell you of just a few of the
things that she has been doing in the last
year. Last summer she got up at five
O'Clock, got breakfast for three, fed and
turned loose one hundred hens and
chickens, helped neghbors' wife three
or four forenoons in the week. drove the
)rses in the afternoon for me to manip-
ulate the hay loader and hayfork, thus
saving hired man that would cost 50 a
day, picked fifty quarts of wild berries,
has been secretary for several years of
the Woman's relief corps, and also local
grange. When we lived in larger place
belonged to clubs. etc. We have lived
together twenty-five years, during
which time we have taken care of three |
old people that depended on as for liv-
ing, seen them through the long years of
their second Childhood, paid their doctor
bills, and laid them in their last resting
place. This has been no light load,
it has seemed heavier than |
we could bear, still, if we were to do it
over again we would do it just the same.
10 this whole twenty-five years she
never has been i'll, and l think has ac-
AS much for the worlds good
as 1915 model and enjoyed life as WELL |
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
Levi P. Morton at 81

A consider able celebration was held in
Congress recently on the S0th birthday
of Uncle Joe Cannon, the dean of the
Congressional membership. Yet Mr..
Cannon is a youngster compared with
the Hon. Levi p. Morton, who spent
many years of his life in useful public SER
vice and who has been highly honored in
times past by his fellow countrymen.
Mr.. Morton has just celebrated his 92d
birthday. He is like Mr. Cannon in
good health and enjoys life. He has
been vice president of the United States,
Governor of New York State, Member of
Congress and Minister to France.
While less conspicuous in the public eye
than Mr.. Cannon, he sis the noblest
Roman of them alp and is remembered
by his felow-citizens with affectionate
regard
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
w, C. T. u. Convention

The Lamoille County w. q. T. U. Con
vention was held last week Tuesday il
the local NJ. E. church. Delegates wer,
present from Wocott, johnson, Jeffer
sonville. besides the entertaining union
The business of the forenoon resulted
in the following elections: President
Mrs. Ines Stewart, Morrsville; First
Vice President, Miss Alice Beecher
johnson; Second Vice President, Mrs
Emma Fisher. Wolcott: Corresponding
| Secretary, l.. Grace Prior, Morrisville;
Recording Secretary, Mrs Flora Watkins,
Jeffersonville; Treasurer, Mrs. Emma
/ Marvin, Morrlsville; Secretary l.. II. L.,
Mrs. Alice Bennett. Superintendent of
Departments, Anti-narcotic, Miss Flossie
Demeritt, johnson; Christian Citizen
ship, Mrs. Emma Marvin Morrisville;
Evangelistic, Mrs. Redstone, johnson:
Sunday Schools, Mrs. Leila Patch, Nor
risville: Fair and Open Air Meetings,
Mrs. G. S. Wilder, Morrisville; Flower
Mission, Mrs. Florence Jaynes, johnson !;
Franchise, Mrs. G. F. Smith, Morrisville;
Literature, Mrs. Mary Gilmore, Jeffer-
sonville; Legislation. Miss L. Grace Prior;
Lumbermcn, Mrs. Gilmore; Medical Tenn
perance, Health and Heredity and Phys-
ical Culture, Miss Alice Beecher; Moth
ers' Meetings, Mrs. Ines Stewart; Scieu-
tific Temperance Instruction, Mrs. Ines
Cornell; Social and Red Letter Days,
Mrs. J. A. Watkins.
The devotional service of the after
noon WAS conducted in helpful manner
by Miss Alice Beecher. Department re-
ports gave AN encouraging review of the
past years work. The Memorial Hour,
conducted by Mrs. G. F. Tillotson,
showed the decease of two members of
the Worthwhile Union. By rising vote,
Secretary was instructed to send reso-
luton OF sympathy to a member. Mrs. c.
F. Smith, and family, for their recent be-
reavement.
The State President Mrs. M. L. Pear
son, gave an address at 8 o'clock, review
ing the Campaign Work. explaining some
special phases of the work, and plans for
the summer months. At $3.50 the pupils
from grades 8, 4, and 6. with their
teachers. assembled for a talk by Mrs.
Ida Van Valkenburgh. They were en-
Enthusiastically responsive to her witty
yells and slogans. Her tenn.
perance teachings appeared clearly.
A splendid temperance recitation was
given by Miss Sears of Jacksonville.
Basket luncheons were served for both
dinner and supper in the church vestry.
At 1880 the devotional service was we'll
conducted by Mrs. j. j. Bennett. A solo
was rendered by Mrs. lila jackson and an
anthem by the choir. The Prohibition
of 26 states indicated the
10 which have voted for State Prohibit
ton, and seven which will vote on the |
issue this year. Miss Ruth Stewart gave
the reading, and all sang ''Our Country's
Going Dry" The speaker of the even
ng was Mrs. Van Valkenburgh of AL
oany, N. Y, who held the close attention |
If her hearers to her we'll drawn con-
illusions. humorous comparisons and hard
acts of experience.
A quantity of literature was distributed !
Turing Convention and some new men,
,ers gained to the organization.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
DIR. SUNDAYS Kind Words

Rev. Billy Sunday talked to an audi
ence of country editors a few days ago
and told them that editors are preachers
and some of the editors have most preach
ers skinned block; that crime would be
100 per cent greater if we had no news
papers. That newspapers stand for
morality; vice is carbnncle, but would
be twice as big if it were not for the news
papers. Bill admitted that some editors
are subsidized by the rotten gang of
boose makers, which be has been fighting
eyer since he was converted; he declared
that he is going to fight them from Dan
to Beersheba, until He'll freezes over, and
then he is going to get pair of skates
and fight them on the ice. Billy's lam
guage is picturesque to say the least
Exchange
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-24
Annual Meeting of Congrega
tiOnal Churches

The 18th annual meeting Of the La.
noble County Association of Congrega-
tional Churches will be held at Johnson
on Thursday of this week. In addition
to local speakers, Rev. DR.. Ewing of Bos-
ton and Rev. DR.. Merrill of St. Johnsbury
will be present. Each church is entitled
to four delegates and the public is invit.
ed to attend the meeting,
The following Is the program
9.45-Devotional.
1O.OO-Mo derator's Address.
1O.30-Business and Reports of Officers.
113O-Discussio of General Theme:
The Church Facing Its Obliga-
ton.
(a) To the Individual,
Rev. w. R. Hamlin
/. 15-Praise Service.
1.3O-Sermon, Rev. F. B. HYDE.
Discussion of General Theme:
The Church Facing Its Obligation.
2.OO-(b) To the County,
Rev. DR.. Merrill.
2.3O-(c) To the Nation and World
Rev. DIR. Ewing of Boston.
3.OO-(d) To Christ, Rev. w. E. Baker.
3.3O-Business.
3.4O-Woman's Missionary Meeting.
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