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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
DUMMERSTON.

The next Grange meeting will be held
Nov. 6.
Mrs. Harold Reed has been in Put
ney few days.
Miss Edith Dutton is visiting in Liv-
ingst on Manor, n. Y.
Albert Brooks of South Vernon is
working for John Walker.
John Sheldon of Greenfield, Mass,
spent Sunday at Sheldon farms.
Myron F. Dutton and Everett Dut-
ton were in Boston two days last week.
Mrs. Don Butterfeld of Wilmington
is guest of her sister, Mrs. l.. C. Hal
laday.
Mrs. j, D. Reed and daughter, Mir
lam, have returned from visit in
Boston.
Miss Edith Walker attended the
Eastern States exposition in Spring
field Saturday.
Mrs, Harold Reed was substitute
teacher Friday and Monday in one of
the Putney schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Johnson re-
Gently visited their daughter, Margaret,
who is i'll i'll Greenfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Townshend
and two children of, Grafton were
guests at George Townshend s over
Sunday.
Several of the townspeople were in
Newfane Wednesday as witnesses in
the case of Mrs. h. G. Bacon against
the town of Dummerston.
Mrs. Helen Phelps has returned to
New Ipswich, n. II. Her niece Mrs.
NJ. E. Brown and Miss Ella Jennison
accompanied her as far as Keene in
G. F. Wellington S automobile.
The soliciting committee for the
game supper are asked to report to
SONG one of the executive committee
II. c. Hazelton, Mrs. NJ. f. Brown OF
Mrs. Abbie Patch, not later than Mon
day night.
The Grange will hold its 18th annual
game supper and dance at the Grange
hall, Dummerston Center Nov. l. Nc
pains will be spared to have this affair
up to the standard of former years
Concert from s to Q by Lyman's or
chestra of Hinsdale, n. H., who viii
furnish music for dancing beginning
at 9 clock. Supper will be served
from to 9.
Seventy-fve singers and dancers il
the big Red Cross musical comedy, TIL,
Rose Girl in Brattleboro Auditorium
Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat
urday matinee, Nov. l. Q and 3.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
SOUTH WARDSBORo.

Bert Allen is visiting relatives in ia
maica and vicinity.
Adm Allen has had telephone in
stalled in his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cobb visited in
Londonderry last week.
Mrs, Tiedeman of Bridgeport, Conn, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edward Stowe.
The Community club will meet at the
church vestry Saturday afternoon, Oct, 81
Mrs. Fred Cobb and Mrs. Mary Reed
visited at Dwight Miller's in Dummerston
Tuesday.
Mr., and Mrs. Herbert Reed returned
home Thursday after visiting in Brattle.
boro and Dummerston.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Allen returned
home from their trip to Springfield
Mass, last week Thursday.
Mrs. Arthur Gibson and Miss Bessie
Ayars have returned to New York city
to spend the winter months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Stocker and Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Stocker motored to Con
necticut to visit relatives last week, re-
turning Sunday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS
SOLDIER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Willim H. Gleason of Rutland Was at
Bellows Falls Station-Did Not Wish
to Return to Camp. ~. o'es ~

Bellows Falls Station-Did Not Wish
to Return to Camp. 80 o'es a"
William II. Gleason, offe of the men
who was drafted for the National army
from Rutland and who has since been
stationed at Camp Devens at Aver,
Mass. shot himself through the heart
ut the railroad station in Bellows Falls
Saturday morning and died almost in
stantly. His body was taken back to
his home that noon.
According to information gathered
Gleason had been on q furlough visit
ing his relativesain Rutland and over
stayed his time FIVE days. This is said
to be his third offence Of that charac-
ter and on former trips home Gleason
is known to have brooded considerably
when the time came to return TO Camp
Devens. .
He reached Bellows Falls at 4 o'cloc k
in the morning and was seen lettering
about the station for an hour and a
half.
About five minutes before it was
time for the train to leave for Bos-
ton, which would take him to Aver, he
drew a revolver and committed the act
which ended his life.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
Retort Pointed.

A Hyde Park orator returning home,
flushed with his oratorical efforts and
from other causes, found mild curate
seated opposite in the tramcar 1T may
interest you to know" he said. triumph
antly, that | don't believe in the exist
ence of eaven?' The curate nodded,
and went on reading his newspapers the
man, DESTROYS of argument, repeated the
declaration; the curate nodded and turned
to his paper, "You don't quite realize. -
said the orator, what I'm trying to make
clear | want you to understand that |
don't believe for single solitary moment
that such place as 'eaven exists" IAN
right, all right" answered the curate.
pleasantly. go to HI, then; only don t
make quite so much fuss about it,
London it-Bits.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
JACKSONVILLE.

Edgar Landman has returned from his
work in BrattleborO.
Charles Colman of Bellows Falls spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Letia
Colman.
Mrs. Jane Barnard of Bondvlle and
Miss Eta Sheldon of Chester are visiting
at Hoyt Sheldon's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Kingsbury, Mar
tin kingsbury and Will Kingsbury went
to Guilford Friday to play for dance.
Clyde Rawson has moved from Putnev,
where lie has had employment this sum
mcr, into one part of Minerva Rawson's
house.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

A Dundee correspondent of a London
journal writes: "The flax trade is vitality
interested in the German occupation of
Riga, which has brought the enemy into
close touch with the most important
centers, such as Lvonia and Pskoff, for
the growing of white flax. which is the
quality used by the great majority of the
Scottish spinners. White flax figures
principally in the heavy end of the trade.
1t is used in the making of canvas, and,
mixed with brown fax, for the manufac-
ture of tent duck The effects of the fax
for British consumption will fortunately
not be felt Immediately, but there is
reason to fear that the crop in the Riga
distrcts now ready for harvesting, will
fall into the hands of the enemy unless
the Russians, in their retreat, succeed in
destroying it,"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

of this to feed the profits OF the farm into
the COW in the hope OF getting them back
from the manure. Keep cows for the pro-
fit on milk and butter, but don't stand
a loss on the milk because you must have
manure. Grow green crops to pillow under,
1t is cheaper, and you don't have to work
at it 1865 days in the year. Take a Sunday
off now and then Il will do YOU good.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
WESTMINSTER.
Patriotic Public Meeting.

The patriotic meeting held at the town
hall Monday evening under the aus
pices of the Fortnightly club, with
G. G.. Wright as manager, proved to be
of unusual interest. s. A. Pierce opened
the exercises with the bugle. calls on his
victrola, followed by other choice selec-
tons, while the people were gathering
The hall was filed to its seating capaci-
ty. The Boy Scouts and their master
from Bellows Falls entertained the au-
dlence short time in a fine manner.
Five veterans and two sons Of veterans
occupied seats of honor on the platform.
The exercises were interspersed with
patriotic readings, recitations and songs.
The old Revolutionary drum used at
the court house in 1875 was used in the
rendition of martial music. Hon. Fred
Fl. Babbitt of Bellows Falls gave a stir
ring address in which he presented
many facts in connection with the war
which had not been fully comprehended
before. One of the pleasing features
of the evening was the honor roll bear
ing the names of the young men of
Westminster who have left home and
friends to defend the rights of their
brothers across the seas. This roll when
completed will be placed at the base of
they journey through the town. ,i., .
Mr.. Pettygrew, a Civil war veteran,
gave some wonderful "reminiscences of
his experiences at the battle of Gettys-
burg and his visit there two years ago,
when he met, on nearly the same spot,
and clasped hands with a southern sol
der who in the far away time he had
met in deadly combat. The singing of
the boys of Kurn Hattin was highly APP
preeiated, when their clear young voices
joined in singing We're Tenting To
/ night On the Old Camp Ground and
I Kanning the Kaiser The exercises
were closed with prayer by E. w. Wild
. Madam Metcalf is numbered among
the sick.
J Mrs. Tina Adams of Manchester. was
recent guest of Mrs. l.. A.SPieree. |.
II. A. Wyman of Keene, n. H., was
weekend guest of his sister, Mrs. l.,
s A. Pierce.
DR.. and Mrs. Prindle of Chicopee
Mass, were guests over Sunday OF Mr.
and Mrs. +, !. Lane.
Miss Hattie Burwell of Canton
' Mass, is spending few days with hel
sister, Miss Almira Burwel.
1 Mrs. Fremont Robinson spent several
1 days last week at the home of c.. NJ
/ Villas in Alstead, n. II. Mrs. Robinson
returned TO her home in Greenvillc
n. II.
' Edwin Pierce and friends, Mr.. Avery
and Mr.. Leedeke of Hartford, Conn.
Z were weekend guests at Mr.. and Mrs
S. A. Pierce s.
S. Ralph Harlow, a returned mission
airy from Turkey, will speak in the Con
gregational church in this place mex
Sunday morning in place of the regula
, morning service.
Those who are to furnish chickens TO
= he chicken-pie supper are asked to leav,
: them with Mrs. Kate Holton. Article
{ for the fancy table are to be left will
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Sergt, William Wadewitz of the l2lst
Heavy Artillery of Racine, Wis., now sta
toned at Waco, Tex, was presented with
$1,000 swagger stick by his comrades on
his 9th birthday, The stick is ebony
with an ivory tip and set with three
carat diamond.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Mr.. Exe-Did you tell the cook that
the beefsteak was burned?
Mrs Exc - Mercy, MOI She would
leave instantly. I told her it was just
right, but that we preferred it trihe
UNDERGONE.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
Mrs. G.. B. Hall and Mrs. Charles Ar

Seventy-fve singers and dancers in
the big Red Cross musical comedy, The
Rose Girl, in Brattleboro Auditorium
Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat
urday matinee, Nov. |. Q and 3.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
He's All Right, Cuss Him.

"Don t knock the burned lunkhead
of a weather man. remarks an eX-
change.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
Used To 1t.

"The minister can go away for the sum-
mer, but Satan never takes a vacation"
"True; but Satan can stand the heat a
great deal better than the minister"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

The Santa Fe railroad recently increased
the pay OF $4,000 of its employees from IL
per cent to Is per cent, making an added
expenditure of 100000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Pennsylvania mining laws require a
mule to be given 700 cubic feet of air a
minute and miner 200 cubic feet.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
600 Bushels of Potatoes from Three
Acre Field.

J. A. Streeter & Son have just fin
ished harvesting 600 bushels of pota-
toes from a three-acre field: $50 Irish
Cobblers, balance Sir Walter Raleighs,
This is the field that recently passed
examination by the state and county
inspectors and Mr.. Streeter has a GER
tificate from the state inspector guar
anteeing these potatoes free from dis
ease.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Don't put ON too many airs as You float
down life's stream your little boat may
capsize,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Seventy-fve singers and dancers in
the big Red Cross musical comedy, The
Rose Girl in Brattleboro Auditorium
Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat
urday matinee, Nov. |, 9 and 3.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
THE PUTNEY COLUMN
Liberty Bond Meeting.

Owing to the heavy downpour at the
hour Of meeting not large audience was
present at the Liberty day exercises held
Wednesday evening in the Congregation
al church. The Boy Scouts could not pa
ade through the streets as planned.
The speaker, f. H. Babbitt of Bellows
Falls was wonderfully interesting, citing
many instances told at meeting in Bur
ington by man who had spent some
time at the front near the fighting line.
There are several corporations in town
but the one referred to Wednesday eve
ming as buying Liberty bonds was the
w. A. Cole Paper Co., which shows its
patriotism by buying a $1,000 bond
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

The Russians seem to be always comm
or gwne.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26
Farm Buildings Burned with Loss of
$4,000.

Extensive farm buildings near Cold
River, N. H., two miles south of Bel
lows Falls, were totally destroyed by
fire about . o'clock Saturday morning.
The farm, which is known as the Joe
Wilson farm, was formerly owned by
Mr.. Wilson, who was grain dealer in
this village, and is now owned by Mrs.
Jessie Dearborn, who is living in a
cottage nearby. 49,
The farm house was occupied by Miss
Caroline Wolfe of Jamaica Plains,
Mass, summer resident. The fire
caught in the barn but the cause is un.
known. The barn contained hay and
grain, two cows, calf and six pigs,
all of which were destroyed. Only a
part Of the furniture in the house was
saved. The total loss was over $4,000,
with insurance on the buildings which
cost $4,000 to build, of only $500.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Seventy-fve singers and dancers in
the big Red Cross musical comedy, The
Rose Girl, in Brattlehoro Auditorium
Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat
urday matinee, Nov. l, . and 8.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-26

Seventy-fve singers and dancers in
the big Red Cross musical comedy, The
Rose Girl, in Brattleboro Auditorium
Thursday and Friday evenings and Sat
urday matinee, Nov. |, and 3.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02
Cnr;o1Ie Water HoIea'

A curious form Of water hole is
found in the deserts Of Western Aus
tralia, dry by day, but yielding an
abundant supply of water by night
The flow Of water is preceded by weird
kissing and sounds of rushing air. On
examining one it was found that the
water supply occurred in long, mar
row trench at the bottom of which
was a thin plate of gneiss "a species
Of rock arranged in layers), separated
by a cavity from the main rock mass
beneath. Apparently the heat of the
day causes this plate to expand in the
form of depression, in which the wa
ter retreats. When it cOols and con-
tracts at night it forces first air and
then water back into the trench.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02

the big money is. He relates his ex-
perience in this way:
Il plant tomato seeds Feb. 10 in shall
low boxes in the greenhouse. making
a trench a half inch deep with the edge
of trOwel and dropping the seeds in
it One-half inch apart. The trenches
are one and One-half inches apart. l
scatter fine dirt over the seed with a
sitter and then spread a damp cloth
over the box and leave the seed to
terminate, which takes five or six
days. When the plants have two or
three leaves they are transplanted to
the hotbed, either being planted d.
rectly in the soil or else in cheap wood
en- boxes, four inches each way and
four inches deep, with loose bottoms.
The boxes are convenient for the Sec
ond transplanting. but | am undecided
whether they are worth the time and
trouble. If these boxes are not used
O clump of dirt six inches in diameter
is taken up with the plant when it is
transplanted out of doors. which takes
place as soon as the danger of frost is
over. By this time the plants are in
blossom and sometimes the fruit has
begun to appear. Great pains must
be taken with this second transplant
ing. A good way to do is to dig
trenches four feet apart and place the
plants in the trench four feet from
each other. tamping the ground firmly
about the roots. Water should be used
in this TRANSFORMING, especially if the
soil is little dry. Most Of the dir
that was thrown out of the trench il
left lying to be turned in by the cul
tivator, by which time it is warmed
by the sun and will hasten growing.
1.-The chief enemy to watch in toma
to growing is blight. which will make
itself apparent when the ends of the
leaves turn brown and wither. This
can be successfully overcome by spray
ing with bordeaux mixture. usually
dip my plants In a weak solution be-
fore the second transplanting and then
aim to give them a second spraying.
Don't be afraid Of getting 1t on the
fruit. 1t won't inJur~ it,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02
DELINQUENT TAX LIST

State of Minnesota, County of Stew
en-, SIS.
District Court, Sixteenth Judicial
District.
The State of Minnesota, to all per-
sons, companies or corporations who
have or claim any estate, right, title,
or interest in, claim to or lien upon,
any of the several parcels of land de-
scribed in the list hereto attached:
The list of taxes and penalties on
real property for the County of Stew
ems, remaining delinquent on the First
Monday in January, 1917, has been
filed in the office of the Clerk of the
District Court of said County, of
which that hereto attached is a copy
Therefore you and each of you, are
hereby required to file in the office of
said Clerk, on Or before the twentieth
day after the publication of this notice
and list, your answer in writing, set
ting forth any objection or defence
you may have to the taxes, or any
part thereof, upon any parcel of land
described in said list, in, to, or on
which you have or claim any estate,
right, title, interest, claim, or lien and
in default thereof, judgment will be
entered against such parcel of land for
the taxes on said list appearing
against it, and for all penalties, inter-
est, and cost.
(SEAL) E. C. GILBERT,
Clerk of the District Court of the
County of Stevens, Minnesota.
Filed February 8, 1917.
c. R. WOLLTHAN,
County Auditor, Stevens County,
Minnesota.
List of Real Property for the County
of Stevens, on which taxes remained
delinquent on the first Monday in
January, 1916.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02

the other milk breeds, as desired. The
cows should have good clover, timothy
or blue grass pasture, or, better still,
If we have it. is an alfalfa field, and
not be compelled to run in the woods
to shift for themselves. If they are
treated in this latter way we cannot
expect the best results. Good clean.
fresh water is essential when wanted.
and they should not be compelled to
drink from stagnant pools which are
infested with all kinds Of microbes
which will COntaminate the milk.
Milk COWS should also have some
ground feed in summer as we'll as in
winter. This can be corn and oats, or
a little wheat bran is good, and, aside
from these daily ration of some kind
of roots will be found a great help to
them. The milk COW deserves and is
entitled to grain the year round, as
well as the work horse, and should be
treated as well. for it pays we'll, as
she is surely working every day.
have been keeping some dairy COWS
a good many years, and l know of no
better feed than good pasture during
summer, with some grain and shred
ded fodder and clover hay during win
ter where there is no silO, but silage
1s by far the cheapest and best for
winter feeding.
Cows with Il good, warm barn and
fed on silage will be nearly as well in
winter as in summer on good pasture
The stables, however, should be clean
at all times, for this is one of the es-
sentials in making good, first class but
ter.
The milk at all times should be kept
in sanitary condition, and we can
also make better butter and more of
it by having cream separator. In
fact, should lot attempt the keeping
of a great many cows without one.
Churn as often as is necessary to keep
the cream from getting old and too
sour.
The butter should be made in pound
prints, arranged in a tasty manner by
the use of little ice in the summer
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02
TOMATO GROWING PAYS
ON The GENERAL FARM
BY c. c. RoWsFIELD.

One of the greatest Of the money
making commodities is the tomato.
This product is important enough to be
considered by farmers generally.
While tomatoes are classed as garden
products, prefer to look on them as
a field crop worth the best efforts of
all farmers. w. A. Carr, an expert to-
mato grower of Minneapolis, has had
a yield as high as 600 bushels per acre
AS tomatoes are worth $3.50 to So a
bushel. this rate of earnings puts them
in a class by themselves.
Mr. Carr advises people who have
no greenhouses to start the plants in
hOtbeds made out of storm windows
and rough lumber. Barn manure can
be used for heat. Starting early, be
gets an early crop, and that's where
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02
DISEASE OF CABBAGE.
Careful Seed Selection Has Produced a
Variety Resistant to Yellows'>

Careful Seed Selection Has Produced a
Variety Resistant to YeIIows">
Successful cabbage growers near
CLYDE, O., after six years trials in CO.
operation with the Ohio experiment
station have obtained strains resistant
to yellows disease, or fusarium wilt.
The All Seasons variety has shown
the least tendency to this disease, and
it also possesses qualities demanded
by the kraut industry. Plants have
been selected for seed which have
shown the strongest growth and the
greatest freedom from disease.
This procedure in combating cabbage
yellows has proved far more success
full than soil sterilization and other di-
rect control methods, growers say. I'm
der conditions of continual attack by
disease certain plants develop charac-
teristics that ward off ravages of such
parasites By continual careful selec-
ton and propagation desired types are
produced that thrive even where dis
ease is abundant while common va
rieties die or else yield poor returns.
The especially resistant strains of the
All Seasons cabbage have been named
the Clyde Series Nos. l to Z. Nos. l, .
and 4 have proved most resistant.
Within a year or two the experiment
station expects to distribute the seed of
these strains to growers.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-03-02
LiUe Stock
And Dairy
MAKING GOOD BUTTER.

Essentials to This End Are First Class
Cows Well Fed and Cared For.
Many things are to be considered in
making gilt edged, first class butter
that will bring the highest price on
the market. writes a correspondent of
the Iowa Homestead. In the first
place, we should have good buttermak
ing cows. A part of the herd should
at least be Jerseys. This breed will
give the butter that fine yellow color,
and the butter will be more firm and
solid. A part of the herd, however,
can be Holsteins, Durhams or any of