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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
w EYBRIDGE

Mrs. Wealtha Baker is slowly improv
ing from a severe attack of the grip,
Mr., and Mrs. A. W. Sturtevant hav,
ben i'll nearly two weeks with grip. DR.
5. $. Eddy was called Sunday.
The improvement society and Ladies
Aid society are to observe Line ln's
birthday with lecture by Rev. d w
Reid, and supper, Monday evening, Feb
rdary ~ in the town hail.
Miss Lydia Hanks is visiting in Fitch.
burg, y ass.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. f. Child leave Thurs.
d,y for Florida where they will spend
the remainder of the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Larrow visited at c
r. Briell's Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs, H. X. TwitchAI of New
York are expected to spend the week
end with his broth r, D. ), Twitchtll.
The Ladies' aid society met with Miss
Nina Sampson, Wednesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09

Vermont is losing two good men by
the designations Of State Forester
Austin f. Halves and of Fish and Game
Commissioner John w. Titcomb Both
are experts and have given the State
expert service at less than its market
value. Their worth to Vermont is likely
to be seen in truer proportion after they
are gone. Both have been informed
that they were not "diplomatic".
Probably they were as long as they
cared to be, but there comes a time
when man gets tired of being patient
and is willing to change his job for
the privilege of telling the truth
straight and hard.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
WEYBRlDGE HILL.

The Endeavor society will hold a box
social at the vestry of the church Fri.
day evening, February lG, the proceeds
to help on the Hymnal recently pur
chased.
Mrs, Greene and little son at the par
sonage are rapidly improving
A birthday surprise party was given
Edgar Beane at his home Tuesday even.
ing About forty were present.
John A. James is confined to the house
with an attack of grip.
Charles James went on Wednesday to
Montpelier where he will attend re-
union of the representatives. of the House
in 1908.
The Missionary society will hold
their regular meeting Thursday after
noon, FEBRUARY 10,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
SUDBURY

The Ladies Aid society met Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. William Upper
and Mrs. William Buckin.
The net proceeds )received from the
drama and farce given by Sudbury
Grange in the town hall Friday evening
amounted to 500. So This amount is to
be given to the Sudbury Public library.
Miss Inez Aver of Leicester spent
Sunday with Miss Ruth Sawyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Jones were in
Montpelier this week where Mr.. Jones
attended rIeunion of the representatives
of 1903.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
WILLIAM @. CARPENTER.

William Quiner Carpenter died early
Thursday morning at the home of his
son-in. law, John B. Selleck of the East
Middlebury road, with whom he lived.
Death was due to heart trouble and old
age. Mr.. Carpenter was born in Gin
cinnati, o., June II, 1928. Besides his
sOn-in-law he leaves four grandsons,
John b. and Norman C.. Selleck of this
village, G. W. Selleck of Salisbury, and
D. Lewis Seleck Of Keesevile, N. Y.
The funeral will be held at the parlors
of A. j. Blackmer's undertaking estab-
lishment Saturday afternoon at
o'clock. Rev. D. H. Corkran, pastor
of the Methodist church, will officiate.
Burial will be in the South New Haven
cemetery,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
DIES IN 9TH YEAR.

Mrs. Melissa Bates, Bennington S
oldest resident, died early Monday
morning at the home of her son, Judge
Edward l.. Bates, in her 9th year.
Until within few weeks ago when she
sustained fall her remark able vitality
was apparently unimpared. On her Goth
birthday anniversary she gave recep-
ton to the older women residents of the
village, as had been her custom for
years. Since the accident she had been
confined to her bed, although her mental
faculties underwent no apparent change.
Mrs Bates was born at Andover, N. H.,
September l6, 1920, the daughter of
Josiah and Hannah Roberts Scribner.
She came to Bennington in 1898 and had
since resided in that town. July II, 1843,
she was married to William Bates, a
native of Cummington, Mass. who died
n Bennington January 26, 1893.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09

Our friends at Burlington seem to be
excitedly divided over the Hunt bill,
which would forbid licenses within five
miles of college. 1t is re lily a ques-
tion for the people of the State
generally, not the college communities.
If the people of Vermont want that their
young men should attend college in
towns free from licensed hotels and
saloons, they have both legal and
moral right to enact effective measures
to bring it about. 1t is nonsense TO talk
about DISTINGUISHING the 1000 voters of
Burlington. No law DISTINGUISHING any
body would stand but laws "for the
encouragement of pedestrianism," as
they are termed in some college towns,
have been on the statute books of
many States for years
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
Inactivity Causes Constipation

Lack of exerci-e in the winter is FIRE.
quent cause of constipation. You feel
heavy, dull and hstless, your complexion
Is sallow and pimply, and energy at low
ebb. Clean up this condition at once
with DIR. Kings New Life Pills, mild
laxative that relieves the congested in
testines without gripping. A dose before
retiring will assure you full and easy
movement in the morning. 25c. at your
Druggist.-adv
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09

President Wilson has done the only
possible thing in reply to the German
note demanding that we resign our
freedom to the seas, Let us all hope
that he will maintain ournational honor
to the end of the crisis, cost what it
may. The country will stand by him
in any measures to uphold our rights,
but it could never forgive him if he
flinched now.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
Painful Coughs Relieved

DR., Kings New Discovery is soothing
healing remedy for coughs and colds
that has stood the test of nearly fifty
wears. For that cough that strains the
throat and saps the vitality try Dr.King's
New Discovery. The soothing pine bal
sans and mild laxative ingredients soon
dirve the cold from the system. Have a
bottle on hand for winter colds, Group,
grippe and bronchial affections. At your
Druggist, SOC lady.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
PROMISED $4,000 TO MARRY.

That Hugh j. Williams, a deceased
Poultney slate manufacturer, promised
the present Mrs. Mary A. Williams
$4,000 if she would marry him is the
finding of Charles H. Darling of Bur
lington as special master in the chancery
case of William H. Hughes executor VS..
Mary Williams ct al in Rutland county.
Ellen T. Jones Of Poultnty as a creditor
asks the court to restrain Mary Will
Hams from disposing of or cucumber
ing the property on the ground that
Hugh Williams decided it to Mrs.
Williams to defraud other creditors,
having insufficient property to pay his
bills at his death. Judge Darling found
that the deciding of the property was to
cover pre-nuptial agreement. Mary
Williams is the second wife of the slate
man
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
Estate of
Mary Eta Guyett,
late of Middlebury.
STATE OLE VERMONT


~ DISTRICT OF ADDISON. IS. \
The Honorable Probate Court for the District
of Addison.
To all persons interested in the estate of Mary
Eta Guyette, late of Middebury, in said district
deceased.
GREETING ::
At a Probate Court, holden at Mddlebury. with
in and for said District on the 9Th day of Febru-
airy, 1917 an instrument purportng to be the last
win and Testament of Mary Eta Guyett. late of
Middlebury, in said District, deceased. was pre-
sented to the Court aforesaid. for Probate
And it is ordered by said Court that the 26th
day of February. 1917, at o'clock a. m. at the
Probate Office in said Middlebury, 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 Middle
bury Register, newspaper circulating in that
vicinity, in said District previous to the time APP
pointed.
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 Middebury. in said
District this 9Th day of February. 1917.
CHARLES |. BUTTON Judge
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
SENATORS AT FUNERAL.

Senators n, H. Taylor and II, II,
Wheeler went Monday forenoon to
Windsor, where, with Senator Lee
Cady, they represented the Senate at
the funeral of Senator Walter |, Ken
dali, which was held at two O'Clock
Monday afternoon, They took a large
floral piece, a memorial from the
senators,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1917,

Col. Reeves was unlucky in resigning
from the First Vermont just a week
before the break with Germany, but If
we have real trouble he will have chance
enough. He could raise second YER
mont regiment in less time than 1t
would take to muster them in.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
KNOCKED FROM TRAIN.

A, b. Sturgis Of Milton, freight con-
ductor on the Central Vermont railroad,
died at lleaton hospital as the result
of injuries received about midnight Sun
day at Montpelier Junction, He had
several broken ribs, punctured lung,
and internal injuries, HIS condition was
such that his wife was summoned The
accidentresuted, lis reported, from an
attempt to make a flying switch, so
called by trainmen, at the Junction
after engine and caboose had returned
from Roxbury with load of cars.
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS,
"The Sign of the Cross" derived
from the symbol which to scores Of mil
lions has for many centuries borne so
profound significance, and filmed by
the Famous Players Film Co. with an
extravaganza Of scenic and spectacular
effects and faithfulness to the original
settings seldom seen in motion pictures,
will be shown at the town hall Wednes-
day evening, February ii, under the
auspices of st, Marys parish, together
with other attractions. Everything has
been done to give the most sumptuous
and lavish production to a play which
lends itself admirably to spectacular
effects, and the result is a film which
rivals in splendor any Of the classical
productions yet presented to the public.
For many years the original play has
fascinated the imagination and swayed
the emotions of audiences throughout
the civilized world as has no other drama
of its type 1t would be impossible to
overestimate the emotional power Of
the film, In the role Of Marcus Super
bus, William Farnum is noble and digni-
fled, both in the tender love passages
with Mercia or when turning in fierce
wrath upon his enemies and calumniat-
ors. The production is undoubtedly
conceded the foremost film classic now
produced in motion pictures.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
for Charter for a
Trust Company in the Village
of Middlebury, Addison
County, Vermont,
D ounty, Verm ont

The following citizens of the town of
Middlebury, in the County of Addison
and State of Vermont:
Charles E. Pinney, D. H. Bennett,
John E. Weeks, John A. Fletcher,
John A. James, E. M. Saunders,
Charles |. Button, Rufus Wainwright
F. w. Beckwith, John M. Thomas,
Thad NJ. Chapman, C. C. Wells,
Allan Calhoun, A. c. Lamb,
A. T. Calhoun, Philip E. Mellen,
John H. Stewart,
having applied to the, Bank Commits
sioner for a hearing for the purpose of
deciding whether the establishment and
maintenance of trust company in the
Village of Middlebury will promote the
general good of the State, | hereby
notify all persons who are interested in
the establishment and maintenance of a
trust company in said village, and all
persons who are opposed to the estab-
lshment and maintenance of a trust
company in said village, to appear be-
fore me at the Addison House in said
village of Middlebury on the 18th day of
March, 1917, at nine O clock in the fore
noon, that they may be heard upon the
following question; WILL THE EsTAB-
LIsHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A
TRUST COMPANY IN THE VILLAGE OF
MIDDLEBURY. Addison COUNTY, YER
MONT, PROMOTE THE GENERAL GOOD
OF THE STATE?
Given under my hand and seal, at the
City of Montpelier, Washington County,
Vermont, this End day of February,
A. d., 1917.
FRANK c WILLIAMS,
6t3 Bank Commissioner.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease. the antseptic powder for pain
full. smarting, tender. nervous feet. 1t takes the
sting out of corns and bunions. Over 100000
packages being used by the German and
Allied troops at the front. Sold everywhere, 25c
Std
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
S2G6l ~
CHARLES + PINNEY,
COUNTY TREASURER,

We have ordered county tax of one
percent on the grand list of Addison
County, according to law, for the pur-
pose of paying the current expenses of
the county for the coming year
Dated at Mlddlebury in the County Of
Addison this LIST day of February, A. ID.
1917.
CHARLES A. CHAPMAN,
CHARLES $. JAMES,
Assistant judges of Addison County
Court.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
Terms strictly In Advance.

ONE YEAR IN VERMONT -------- Sl'uo
Blk MONTHS IN VERMONT 100000 90
THREE MONTHS IN VERMONT 600 20
ONE YEAR Outside Of Vermont, s,9h
ONE YEAR Outside Of U, S., $50. loo
Advertising copy must reach the office
by Tkursnny noon TO insure publication
in The Register for the current week.
The Register will be found on file at
the Congressional Library reading room,
Washington, ID, O.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09
MlDDLEBuRY REGISTER
PUBLISHED nv

PUBLISHED ~
JOSEPH BATTELL ESTATE,
yALLETTE BLOCK
MIDDLEBURY, NahmoNr'
Entered al the MiddlSbuTV POsio6loe as Second
Class Matter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-02-09

The following citizens of the town of
Middlebury, in the County of Addison
and State of Vermont.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
Don't Realize Wars Necessities.

James II. Mann, the Republican
leader of the house, has been having
a tit because the war department let
certain emergency contracts without
waiting for competitive bids. In time
of peace this would not only be rep
rehensible, but it would be in viola
ton of the law. In time Of war it is
not only commendable, but the Sec
rotary of war who hesitated to do it
would deserve impeachment. A war
department that always waited for
competitive bids would soon find that
the enemy was not waiting for COM
petitive bids; vet there are still men,
bers of congress who delude them
selves into believing that the most
highly centralized military govern
ment known to history can be beaten
by the easy and comfortable methods
Of town meeting.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
Queer Sort of Butter.

"A queer sort Of butter is obtained in
Trinidad, where cows and cream are
scarce. This butter is the boiled-down
fat of bird called the guacllaro. The
Illustrated World says that this bird
lives in the darkest caves, and seldom
is seen in the daylight. The young
birds are extremely plump and from
them is obtained rich fat, the natives
very good substitute for butter. The
birds are taken from their nests when
two or three weeks old. After they
are killed, they are put ON to boil, not
In water, but in their own fat. The
natives experience some difficulty in
getting at the nests of the guachuro,
for they must creep through caves and
wade through stugnant pools to reach
their prey. The full-grown guacharo is
so timid that no one ever has been able
to photograph a living specimen.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
"The Grape of Brazil"

A notable feature of gardens within
a certain area about Rio de Janeiro is
the jaboticaba tree. The delicious fruit
is often known as "the grape of Bra
zil' on account of its appearance, and,
as described in a bulletin of the United
States department of agriculture, is
conspicuous from its peculiar habit Of
growing directly upon the bark, not
only of the small limbs but even OF
the trunk and exposed roots. The tree.
growing to height of IS to 40 feet,
branches freely close to the ground,
spreading into a symmetrical leafy top
of great beauty. The flowers, produced
singly and in clusters, often cover the
entire bark above the ground. The
fruit develops rapidly to diameter of
half an inch to an inch and half, has
deep maroon-purplc color, is covered
with thick, rather tough skin charged
with coloring matter and much tannn,
and contains the translucent juicy
pulp, having an agreeable vinous fla
vor suggestive of the Muscatine grape.
One to four llattened oval seeds,
quarter of an inch long, are inclosed
in this pulp. The fruit tempts one to
eat indefinitely. the complaint being
that it is impossible to satisfy ones
appetite on jaboticabas.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
Insure Future in Youth.

In youth is the time to insure the
future. This is true of every kind
of insurance. And success follows the
same law. TITS true that in youth you
have less to go on, but if you don't
make tie start now you will never be
more than "hand-tc-mouth" per-
former. You must be convinced of the
worth of your ideal and then stake all
on making it Indispensable to the
world. You will have to show the
world you believe in it. The world
may even demand proof in sacrifice.
Hesitate and you are lost. Pay the
price of your belief promptly and con-
stantly and the future will be more
welcome in consequence. 1t isn't the
noise you make that counts-it's the
good you do. Even that may be ques-
toned by some folks, but you know
when it's genuine. So begin now.
Keep your ideals high and back them
up with the service that commands
respect and the world will return the
purchase price Of your ideal with in.
terest.-Grit.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
Hard Task Before Commission.

1t may be that the American COM
mission to Russia. which is singular
~ able and representative one, will
be of great service. 1t certainly can
assure the Russian people that the
sympathies of the great western
democracy go out to them in their
hour of trial and that the American
people have never had for them any
but the most friendly feelings. The
commission can also assure them that
this country has had some experience
with Prussian plots and intrigues. We
know something about liberty and
self-government, and how difficult it
is to win and maintain them. We
know, too, that liberty and self-gov-
eminent are not the cure for all earth
ly ills. But that is a lesson which
1t is never easy for people to whom
liberty is Il new thing to learn. Prob
ably no men who ever left our shores
had harder task than that faced by
the Root commission. If it only part
ly succeeds in performing it, much
will have been accomplished.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
NOtice in Riders

Notice is hereby given that the Board
Of Education of the City Of Walpeton, N.
.. will. until the 10Th day of July 1917. a:
o'clock ?. NJ, receive bids for the cal
Ginning of seven rooms and three halls:
the vanishing of all wood work in flye
rooms and two halls; and the painting of
all the woodwork in Two rooms and one
hall and all radiators and pines in all OF
said rooms: all of said rooms and hall
Ways being, located ON the second or upper
ncor of the Grade School Building in
M wa II; ,. Two coats Of cacimine
% u S;,o shall aal be made Of linseed oil and
proper proportions. All work must be per-
FORMED and completed in good, FIRST
class. workmanlike manner.
BIDS must be in writing. sealed marked
bids for Calcmining and Painting and
must be received by the undersigned on
or before the time above mentioned Each
niddcr must submit and deliver With his
bid his certified check in an amount equal
to ten per cent of his bid With tho UNDER
standing that said check will be the prom
rltN. Of the said Board of Education ana
sha!! be casled by it in case the bi,ido"
shall refuse 10 enter into the proncr CON
tract or TO furnish the bond required nv
law. or by said Board.
The BOARD reserves. the right TO reject
any and all bids.
Dated June IS. 1917
BY Order Of the Board OF Ed:ra!inn
NJ. PESCHEL.
Clerk.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
WATER NECESSARY TO LIFE
Astronomer Can Prove That Other
Planets Are Uninhabited II He
Finds They Have No Moisture.

All life is lived in water. Where
no water is, no life can be. The nec-
essary machinery may have been al
ready made, as in a completely dried
seed, but that seed cannot actually live
until water reaches it again. To live
is to be wet; or, in the phrase of q
French student, Life is an aquatic
phenomenon"
When the supply Of water is with.
held from living things they may sur
vive, but their life is slowed down,
as it We're. In the completely dried
seed life is arrested altogether, yet the
creature is not dead. The French call
that case of vie suspendue-or, in
our language, suspended animation.
After astonishingly long periods. such
seeds will terminate If they are wa
tered.
The astronomer tells us that our
planet is only one of many belong
ing to innumerable suns, and he Won
dered whether this little "lukewar1n
bullet" of ours, as Robert Louis Ste
venson called it, is really unique in
bearing burden of life. There is one
path that leads to the answer of his
query. If he finds no evidence of wa
ter on other worlds he cannot expect to
find life there.-Dr. c. w. Saleeby, in
The Youths Companion.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05

A new idea of primitive man was
put forward by an Irish professor re-
Gently. He states that the direct an
cestors of primitive man never went
on all-fours, had lived in trees, and,
by climbing up and down the trunks.
cultivated the upright habit Of the hui
man race. He points out that the fore
limb was never used only as sup
port for the body. It seems quite
credible, however, that they may have
gone on three legs, using one as q
hand when required. ana this might
account for the general use Of the
right hand in nlan.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-05
Conservation Of Labor Supply.

If we are wise and far-sighted we
shall enforce child labor laws and
school laws more rigidly than ever
just now. We shall scHltinize and
regulate every single use of children
In industry. for there must be moth
ing Needless in the emergency about
our use of human resources. More
than that. we shall stimulate educa-
ttOnal activity, especially in industrial
training, and support as never before
public and private child welfare agen-
cies. If we are going to make the
most of the material we have in hand.
In short, we must protect, train and
develop children now for the simple
reason that for the future, both re-
mote and immediate. we need Il more
intelligent and ablc-bodied set of peo-
pie than ever. ''The nation is under
special obligation to secure that the
rising generation grows up strong and
hardy both in body and character" is
the solemn warning of England, which
has been ut war for three years, to
America, on the threshold Of war;
The New Republic.