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INTERNATIONAL.
 EGG CONTEST

The close of the fifteenth week in ,&he Laying Contest at Storrs saw the total egg production at better than 28, ,0O0 eggs. This means very nearly an average of two. eggs per week for each of the 1000 hens in the com petition. The total production for the week was 2,776 eggs. gain of AZ over the preceding week but LA eggs less than for the corresponding week last year. First honorss for the week went to Fairfield Poultry Farms Bar red Rocks from Short Falls, N.. H., their total being 49 eggs. Merry thought Farms White Wyandettes from Columbia, Conn.,, were second with 48 eggs, and A. P. Robinson's White Leghorns from Calverton, N. cY.. were third with AT eggs each.
 Even with feed prices at the pres ent high level poultrymen should de- rive considerable satisfaction from the following: During last week the cur rent wholesale price on hennery white eggs in New York City was 50 @51 cents per dozen. This is about 2l cents higher than the quotation for the corresponding week last year. This margin ought to help consider
 
 Score card judging of the birds in the contest has been previously an- nounced. In tabulating the scores of the sPlymcuth Rocks it is found that many of them make a very respecta- ble showing. One pen of White Rocks owned by Benjamin F. Low, Derry, N H., deserves especial mention. This pen had four birds each of which fba crir7 r7cr 93Z points. A. A. Hall, Danbury, Conn. had the best Buff Rocks with a pen score of 9O1s. Merritt M. Clark Brookfield Center, Conn.,, had the best pen of Barred Rocks with a pen score of STA. The best single specimen in the Barred was hen No. 90 owned by A. B. Hall Wallingford, Conn. Five individuals out of one hundred and forty were disqualified, two for white lobes, two for side sprigs, and one for black flight feath- CTS. The following table indicates the average pen score of all the Plymouth Rock varieties on the basis of 1000 for perfect.
 No. Birds Variety Score 90 Barred Plymouth Rocks s70 80 White 915
 20 Buff :" '' 902
 The three best pens in each of the principal varieties are as follows:
 Barred Plymouth Rocks
 Fairfelds Poultry Farms, Short Falls, N. H. 434 Jules F. Francais, w. Hampton
 Beach, l.. l. ............. 427 Rodman Schaff, Fitzwilliam, NH. 309
 White Wyandottes
 Merrythought Farm, Columbia,
 Conn. ASA 4. l.. Mulloy, Waterbury, Conn.,. < 405 Brayman Farm, Westville, N. H. 379
 Rhode Island Reds
 Jacob E. Jansen, North Haven,
 : Conn. 472 Geo. w. Harris, Westport, Conn. 444 Hillview Poultry / Farm, St. AL
 r bans, Vt .~. .............. 429
 White Lsghorns
 \. P. Robinson, Calverton, N. Y. 533 Hilltop Poultry Yards, Sufheld,
 conn. 49O T. O. LeFevre, New Paltz, N. Y: 4S1
 Miscellaneous
 Koshaw Farms, Cuff Rpcks), Granby, Conn. .............. 417 Cloves & Sullivan, Cuff Wyan-
 dottes), Hartford, Conn. .. 3S7 Obed G. Knight, (White Orping-
 :. tons), Bridgeton, R. I. ........ 3S6
 The Ferguson ..bone dry bill was TS" 1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-17

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND BOUQUETS
 JOHN RICK & SON -~-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-17

The Ferguson "bone dry bill was nassad by the Oklahoma Senate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-17
New York Stock
 Exchange Quotations

Reported over the private wires of T. l.. Watson & Co.,, Bankers and Brokers, Corner Main and John Sts., Bridgeport, Conn. Members of New York Stock Exchange
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-25
CHAPTER XIV.

AT something after two o'clock that
night. ke put down his pipe and lis
tened BE had not been able to sleep
since midnight. In his dressing gown
he had sat by the small fire, thinking.
The content of his first few months on
the Street was rapidly giving way to
unrest. He who had meant to cut him.
self off from life found himself again
In close touch with It; his eddy was
deep with it.
And there was new element. He
had thought. az first, that he could fight
down this love for Sidney. But it was
Increasingly hard. The innocent touch
OF b.r hand on his arm, the moment
when he had held her in his arms after
her mothers death, the thousand small
contacts of her returns to the little
house-ali these set mis- blood on fire.
And it was fighting blood.
Uuder his quiet exterior K. fought
many conflicts those winter days-over
his desk and ledger at the Office, in his
room alone. with Harriet planning fresh
triumphs beyond the partition, even by
Ch-fe:inc's IRE. with Christine rust
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Woman Does Not Realize to What
Depths She Sinks Herself by Using
Popular Expression.

When a woman declares that she
feels like q dishrag" she is dragging
herself down to the lowest level of
still life. We doubt not from the per-
sonal appearance of that handy ar
ticle Of domestic utility that If any
life existed at all in said rag 1t could
not possibly fall lower or feel meaner.
However, woman should cever offer
herself in comparison with so de-
graded an object for the simple rea-
son that mankind spurns the dishrag
most vehemently, and as woman
exists solely for man she should not
seek to lower herself in his esteem.
When a rag takes up it's duties In the
dishpan it has reached the tag end
of abandoned hope, the climax per-
haps of merry life. A dishrag might
have been a lovely lady's hose in it's
palmy days, adorned by silken gar
ter and surrounded by costly lingerie.
But it is not of its past that / speak.
1t Is Of its present social standing, its
vulgar environment and It's utter
self-abandonment TITS true that you
may feel fatigued to a limp and loppy
degree, but never can you feel so
utterly wretched and beyond redemp,
ton as dishrag.-Zim, In Cartoons
Magazine.
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CHAPTER xIV-Continued.

II believe 1t is" Wilson smiled at her
And yet, you continue to tempt me
and expect me to yield" Sidney replied.
"One of the most delightful things
about temptation is yielding now and
then"
After all, the situation seemed alb
surd. Here was her old friend and
neighbor asking to take her out for
daylight ride. The swift rebellion OF
youth against authority surged up In
Sidney.
Very well I'll 60"
CarlOtta had gone by that time
gone with hate in her heart and black
despair. She knew very well what the
Issue would be. Sidney would drive
with him, and he would tell her how
lovely she looked with the air on her
face and the snow about her. The
jerky motion of the little sleigh would
throw them close together. How well
she knew 1t all He would touch SID
ney's hand daringly and smile in her
eyes. That was his method: TO play at
love-making like an audacious boy, I'M
and the danger was there.
If she could get Sidney out of the
hospital, 1t would simplify things. She
surmised shrewdly that on the Street
their interests were wide apart 1t was
here that they met on common ground.
Carlotta gave the five-o'clock medi-
cines. Then she sat down at the table
A. =, A. ~ In fnT of
her. There are certain thoughts that
are at first functions of the brain !;
after long time the spinal cord takes
them up and converts them into acts
almost automatically. Perhaps because
for the last month she had done the
thing so often in her mind, its actual
performance was almost without con-
scious thought.
Carlotta took q bottle from her
medicine cupboard, and writing new
label for 1t, pasted it over the old one.
Then she exchanged it for one of the
same size on the medicine tray,
Throughout the dining room busy
and competent young women came and
ate, hastily or leisurely as their oppor-
tunity was, and went on their way
again. In their hands they held the
keys, not always of life and death per-
haps, but of ease from pain, of tender
ness, of smooth pillows, and cups of
water to thirsty lips. In their eyes,
as in Sidney's, burned the light of serv-
ice. The supper room was filled with
their soft voices, the rustic of their
skirts, the CLEAN of their stiff white
caps.
When Carlotta came in, she greeted
none of them. They did not like her,
and she knew it.
Before her, instead of the tidy sup
per table, she was seeing the medicine
tray as she had left it.
'T guess I've fixed her." she said to
herself.
Her very soul was sick with fear OF
what she had done.
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"sne'd better come home and sta,

"Sne'd better come home and stay
home" said Harriet shortly. II hope
it doesn't get in the papers. This
dressmaking business is q funny sort
Of thing One word against you or
any of your family, and the crowds
off somewhere else"
There's nothing against Sidney" K
reminded her. Nothing in the world.
/ saw the superintendent myself this
afternoon. 1t seems it's mere mat
ter of discipline. Somebody made a
mistake, and they cannot let such a
thing go by. But he believes, as do,
that it was not Sidney"
However Harriet had hardened her.
self against the girls arrival, all she
had meant TO say fed when she saw
Sidney's circled eyes and pathetic
mouth.
you child y she said. "You poor
little girl" And took her to her cor
seted bosom.
For the time at least, Sidney's world
had gone to pieces about her. All her
brave yaunt of service faded before
her disgrace.
When Christine would have seen her,
she kept her door locked and asked for
just that one evening alone. But after
Harriet had retired, Sidney unbolted
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The Versatile Manehurian Farmer.

In the early fall in Manchuria, the
natives undergo a sort Of magic change
from farmer TO bandit. T seems some
thing of a psychological somersault-
one day a Flooding farmer, the next a
highwayman. After the tall kaobang,
or giant millet, is cut, and escape is
not so easy over the bare plains, an
other clap of the hands and 10,
pea ceful farmer once more 1t is not
only the farmer who plays this eXcit
ing game; many another staid men,
Der of the community has his little
fling. Some even combine their roles,
differentiating according to the seas
sons. With the orientaPs disregard for
conditions, a man is often a bandit,
merchant and magistrate all at once.
Alice Tisdale, in the Atlantic.
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X. LeMOyne, mysterious
stranger, takes q room at the
Page home, presided over by
Sidney, her mother Anna and
her Aunt Harriet, q fashionable
dressmaker. Through the in
fluence of DIR. Max Wilson, q
brilliant young surgeon smitten
with her charm, Sidney becomes
a hospital nurse. X. loves her
from 81 distance; so does Joe
Drummond, an old high-SchOOl
chum. At the hospital Sidney
makes the acquaintance OF
Carlotta Harrison, who has
been over-intimate with Doctor
Wilson, and who is jealous of
the innocent newcomer. Sid
ney's chum, Christine LorenZ,
marries Palmer Howe, a society
rake, and they take rooms with
the Pages. Howe Is untrue to
his bride. His arm is broken In
a joy-riding accident, and John
ny Resented, his chauffeur, is
MORALLY injured. All these
people are neigIibors, so there
is q sort Of common interest
among them. Doctor Wilson
discovers that LeMoyne is q ia
nous Doctor Edwardes living In
cognito, and keeps the secret.
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CHAPTER XVI.

To Harriet Kennedy, Sidney's sentence
of thirty days suspension came as a
blow. K broke the news to her that
evening before the time for Sidney's
arrival.
The little household was sharing in
Harriet's prosperity. Katie had a
helper now, a little Austrian girl
named Mimi. And Harriet had estab-
lished on the street the innovation of
after-dinner coffee. It was over the
after-0inner coffee that E. made his
announcement.
What do you mean by saying she Is
coming home for thirty days? Is the
child ill?'
Not i'll, although she Is not quite
well. There was q mistake about the
medicine, and she was blamed; that's
all"
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ment; then the crowd closed up again.
1t was well for Carlotta that II did.
She looked as if she had seen ghost
closed her eyes, even reeled.
Miss Harrison is worn out" Doctor
Wilson said brusquely. 'Get some
one to take her place"
But Carlotta rallied. After all, the
presence of this man in this room az
such a time meant nothing. He was
Sidney's friend, that was all.
But her nerve was shaken. The thing
had gone beyond her. She had not
meant to kill. 1t was the boys weak
ened condition that was turning her
revenge into tragedy.
ST am all right" she pleaded across
the bed to the Head. Let me stay,
please. He's from my ward. II am
responsible
Wilson was at his wits end. He
had done everything he knew without
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her door and listened in the little up
per hall. Harriet, her head in towel,
her face carefully cold-creamed, had
gone to bed; but KS light, as usual.
was shining over the transom. Sid
ney tiptoed to the door.
*. !"
Almost Immediately he opened the
door.
May come in and talk to your
He turned, took a quick survey of
the room, and held the door wide. Sid
ney came in and sat down by the fire.
'Tve been thinking things over" she
SAID ''It seems to me- I'd better not
go back"
He had left the door carefully open.
Men are always more conventional
than women.
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said General Wood, "our men in our
uniform must be at the front. 1t is
no chiId's play. We shall send living
men and bring them back dead-but
never until this IS done shall we fulfill
our duty.
'sYou are now standing behind the
allied lines and behind such forces as
we have afioat. There is long period
shall be ready to assume our proper
position in the war, and the first step
is to back up the plan for universal
military service You cannot let some
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-25
PLEA FOR UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Major General Wood Points Out What
He Considers the Duty of the
United States.

Boston.-Major General Wood,
speaking at a meeting Of the Ameri-
can Cotton Waste Exchange here, said
that the United States would not fulfill
its duty in this war until it had sent
men to the front. The meeting was
called to raise funds for the Red Cross.
sIf we are to be part of the war;"
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"BIue Laws"

Blue laws is term that was applied
TO certain early statutes of a puritan
icaI nature passed in Connecticut. The
name is now frequently applied TO re-
'strictive statutes that prevent Sunday
activity.
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body else do your job and have clear
conscience. This republic has given
everything in the way of opportunity,
and, on the other hand, it has the right
to demand the service of its citizens.
"a voluntary service, however de-
lightful in theory, Is ridiculous in prac-
tice. 1t would be a noble thing IL
every man rushed to the colors, but
every man does not. Only 5000 men
have been enlisted in two weeks, and
I leave it to you to estimate how
long 1t will take to get an army Of
million men,"
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What do you think is the real
secret about X. LeMoyne? Why
has he given up his promising
career7 What does Carlotta
Harrison know about him that
Is damsglng7 Some interesting
developments will be recorded
in the next instalIment.
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THE LADY AND THE DISHRAG

(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-05
SOUTH CABOT

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Curtis and daugh
ter, Elizabeth, of Montpelier visited al
Gilbert Hills Sunday. Mrs Curtis is a
sister of Mr.. Hill
Kenneth Lamberton of Marshfeld Wis.
tied his aunt, Mrs. w R. Tibbetts, Sun
day.
School begins here Monday. Sept. 10.
Louise Barber of Montpelier will be the
teacher.
Mrs. Orvis Shaw of Marshfield was at
her fathers Sunday.
Henry Hill and wife of Hardwck Wis
tied at his fathers, Gilbert Hill, one
day last week.
Joe Hazlett had the misfortune to
stick fork tine through his hand one
day last week.
There was mistake in the last South
Cabot items. 1t was Hiram Darling
who visited at c. B. Bouldry's, instead
of Hiram Colberth's.
Elsie Bovee and Charles Lapoint were
in Woodbury. visiting friends Sunday.
Charles Houghton and Walter Abbott
and wife were in Montpelier last Sat
urday.
Eta Pinkham of Quincy, Mass, is
stopping at her brothers, A. G. Cassidy,
for a while.
Mrs. Avon Hall was at her mothers in
Monday.
Master Frank Shaw of Marshfeld is
boarding at George Gees.
Agnes and Arlene Walbridge of Woods
Vile, N. H., visited their aunt, Mrs. S. f.
part of last week.
Barney Anderson of Plainfield was at
Luther Warden's over Sunday
f. f. Kidder and wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rufus Allen were in Littleton, n H.,
sunday.
Clyde Brown is attending school at
academy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-05
BROOKFIELD

T P. C. Reyes was in Montpelier Monds,
on business.
Miss Anna Clark returns Thursday T.
her school work in New York City.
Mrs. Harley George, who has been a
the Randolph sanatorium the past thre
weeks for treatment, arrived home Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. d. Hazen and Misses
Louise and Anna Hazen, of Hartford Wis
tied Mrs. u. A. Clark and daughter, Miss
Anna, Monday and Tuesday.
DIR. Arthur Bean and family returned
to their home in Brooklyn, N. ", Mon
day,
Miss Alice Blanchard of Barre visited
Mrs. f. l.. Holt last week.
Miss Hovey of Barre is nurse for c. G.
! Hood, who is not so well at this writing
Mrs. Henry Butterfeld of Oxford,
Mass, visited her mother, Mrs. Josiah
Smith, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. f. Sargent went to
Woodsville, N. H., Monday to spend a
few weeks at the homes of their children,
Ernest Sargent, Mrs. Parker and Mrs.
Aitkin.
Miss Edna Sargent went Monday TO
Braintree hill, where she is engaged to
teach school.
Mrs Ellen Wheatley of Meriden, Conn,
came Friday to stay few days with her
sister, Mrs. f. W. Edison.
Miss Isabelle Griffith of Middlebury
was the guest several days last week of
Mrs. f. T. Clark.
c. T. Frink of Charlotte was an over
Sunday visitor in town, the guest of R.
w. Walbridge and other friends. He was
called here on business.
At the special meeting of the Brook
field public library, which was held Sat
urday evening, called for the purpose of
eecting treasurer to succeed Mrs.
Louise NJ Bigelow, deceased, George X.
Sprague was unanimously elected.
Prof. A. W. Edison returned to his home
in New York City Saturday. Mrs. Edison
will stay few weeks longer at their
cottage.
Mrs. Jennie Wheeler Day of Spring |
field, Mass, and Mrs. Winnie Spaulding |
of Roxbury were guests Tuesday of Mrs.
A. L. Folansbee.
G. f. Ingalls, of Burlington, superin I
tendent of the boys and girls club of
Vermont, gave a talk and stereopticon
views before the Brookfeld club in town
hall Tuesday evening. There was a very
good attendance and much interest was
manifested Supt. G. W. Patterson was
llso present and gave talk on the plans
If the school work.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-05
W4ITSFIELD

Mrs. A. B. Tucker spent Sunday
Waterbury.
Ralph Buzzell went Sunday to Ran
dolph for few days stay.
Philip f. Bisbee, who has been spend
ing his vacation at the home os his par
ents, returned Saturday to Holyoke
Mass
Miss Margaret Henry, who has beer
guest at B. d. Bisbee's, returned Sat
urday to her home in Norwalk, Conn.
Miss Jane Paige returned Monday
from visit in Moretown and Duxbury.
Mrs A. W. Bigelow spent Sunday il
Burlington.
Bert Savage returned Sunday to his
home in Proctor.
James Moriarty and David Mills re-
turned to st. Johnsbury academy Mon
day.
Wells Palmer, A. f. Mehuron, +. A.
Fiske and Judson Richardson attended the
G. A. r. meet in Montpelier Monday.
The directors of the Mortified bank
were at G. W. Wallis Monday.
Miss Irene Child spent the weekend
at d. H. SINNERS.
Miss Louise Folsom has been engaged
to teach the village grammar school.
Mrs. w. J. Howard is in the Mary
Fletcher hospital, where she has been OPP
Grated on for appendicitis. DIR. Howard
is spending as much time as possible in
Burlington.
John C. Kingsbury and wife are TAX
ing a vacation, going to Canada in their
car.
DIR. Arthur B. Bisbee of Montpelier
spent Labor day in town.
Howard Long was home from Framing
ham, Mass, for the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. D. Phelps, Mr.. and
Mrs Arthur Young and Miss Lillian
all of Barre, spent Labor day
at B. d. Bisbees.
The young peoples Bible class of the
Congregational church will hold their !
regular monthly business and social
meeting Friday evening with Stanley
md Laura Buzzell. /
Mr.. and Mrs. George Howe of Derry,
Y H., are in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Bragg of Randolph
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-05
M1RSHFIELD

Miss Bertha Smith and mother, Mrs
A. J. Smith, of Burlington, are the guests
of Miss A. i. Burnham and mother
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Eddy of Mont
peler visited friends in town over Sun.
day.
A son arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George May Sunday evening, Sept.
Mrs Clarina Shepard is in Montpelier
visiting her son, B. NJ, shepard. "
The Pythian Sisters will hold a social
for the babies in X. of P. hall Friday
afternoon, Sept 7. Everybody come and
bring the baby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Whitney of
Grantham, n H., are visiting at Frank
Whites.
Mrs. Sadie Roberts of Barre was the
guest of her uncle, C. E. Thwing, last
week.
Mrs. Howard Foster and son of Lyn-
don visited her mother, Mrs. F. B. Gar
field, recently
Mrs. H. G. Hollister has been camping
ut Nelson's pond few days with her
sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. H. Brown and son,
Charles, went last Friday to Greenfield,
Mass, for few days visit with their
son, Grant.
Some new cement steps are being con-
structed at the library, which will be a
great improvement.
Mrs. Lucy Hollister spent last week
with friends in Plaintield.
Edward Ward was home from Fort
Ethan Allen Friday.
Schools in town began Tuesday, Sept. |
4. The teachers in the graded school are
as follows; Grammar department, Miss
Alice Clark; intermediate department, |
Miss Elsie 'Weleh of Corinth; primary |
department, Miss Mcbride of st. Adams
Bay.
A party of l6 spent Sunday at Caspian
lake in Greensboro. \
Edmund Pike of the U. s. navy ar
rived Saturday for visit with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs j. B. Pike
Mrs. j. W. Sulham is nursing in the
family of G. f. May.
c. II. Collins and H. c. HOLSTER were
among those who went on the Washing
ton county farmers auto tour of inspec-
tion last Friday. ;
L. D. Mute and G. B. Wheeler have
been drawn as jurymen from this town.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-05
H1RDWICK STREET

Mrs. Earl Flanders and children OF
Lakeport, n. H., who have been passing
few days at G. f. Warmers, have gone
to w. d. Hills, at Greensboro Bend.
Misses Harriet and Ellen Kellogg, who
have been spending the summer hare,
have gone to the latter's home at Wells
River.
Helen and Ethel Russell left for Bur
lington Monday, where they will attend
school the coming year.
Aieen Perkins of Greensboro Bend was
an over Sunday visitor at George F.
Warmers.
Miss Lorinda Foss is visiting her neph-
ew, F. +. Foss, at Hardwick for few
days.
Miss Ella johnson has gone to Cabot
for few days to visit friends.
p. A. Eastman has been entertaining
guests from Concord, n. Fl.