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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-04
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
Estate of
Mrs Alice Ward
late of ShorehaIn

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Nd
Olson, commissioners, 10 receive, examine, and ad.
Just the claims and demands Of all persons against
the estate Of Mrs, Alice Ward. late Of Shore ham,
In said District. deceased, and all claims eXhb.
tied In offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
VIII meet for the purpose aforesaid at the office
Of William y, Brewster, IN the village Of Middle
bury, IN said District, on the 2lst day Of May and
22d day of October, next, from O'Clock a, M. I'M
six months from the 2sth day Of April. a. d. 1917.
Is the time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated At Mlddlcbury, w., this % day of May,
A. u, 1917.
William II. Brewster ic..,..,..
Cushing Hin COMMISSIONERS
Milo X Moore. Administrator. Is
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-05-04

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District Of ADJ
Olson, commits toners, 10 receive examine, and adj
Just the claims and demands Of all p, rsons against
the estate OF William Foote late Of Middlebury.
in said District, deceased. and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto. hereby give notice that we will
meet for the purpose aforesaid, at the County
Clerk Office, in the village Of Middebury in said
District on me ISL day OF May and I'D day OF
O'Clock p. M. on each Of said days and that six
months from the Goth day Of April. a. d. 1917, is
the time limited by said Court for said creditors to
present their claims to US for examination and al
lowance.
Dated at Middlebury, Vermont this 9th day Of
April, A. d. 1917
Enfqs s W@n%right commissioners
Allen r. Surtevant. Admir-. Is
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
CLING TO ANCIENT CUSTOMS
In Rural England Forms Of Easter
Celebration INDUCED In for Cen.
turtles Are Still Kept Up.

The mention of hot cross buns inn
mediately suggests England where
they are used more universally than
perhaps any other country. And while
England is not Catholic country,
sO-called, rural customs of all kinds,
religious and otherwise, have an I'M
usually firm hold. One Of the very
strangest yesterday customs is called
the harepie festival, enacted in Leices-
tershire, at the village of HaliatOn.
Every Easter morning a brass band
heads a procession which takes in most
everybody in the town.
They. parade through the streets and
after q short service at the Episcopal
church the rector, aided by two or
three officials Of the village, cuts up
large rabbit pie, which has been baked
for the occasion. These pieces Of pie
are fought for by boys and young men,
down a hillside called Hare Bank, and
It is considered something to be proud
Of to deserve the largest cut of the
pastry.
This is followed by a feast ia the
principal tavern or church. and ale In
abundance is consumed, an affair
which precedes a football match IA
nous over the whole of the county,
and looked forward to by thousands
Of spectators every year.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
NEEDS BRAINS OF ENGINEERS
Underlying All City Planning 10 the
Necessity to. Secure Health and
Comfort for the People.

City Planters are always busted with
civic centers, city halls, libraries.
parks, Fairgrounds, street trees, COM
fort stations, ETC., all grand features,
all desirable, all even necessary, yet all
incidentals. The first problem to crap
pie with is availability. Such work Is
at present our greatest need, for all
our sO-called main thorOughfares are
now too much cOngested during the
busiest hours. This is an engineers
problem. Storm drains and also sewers
are next on the program, also referred
to the engineers department. After
this we need reservations for small
neighborhood parks so that every resi-
dent may reach one from his home in
ii Terminates walk. Now, having made
our city available and sanitary to q
satisfactory degree we are ready to
make it city beautiful and consider
all the commendable fads put forward
by bands Of energetic workers who for
many years have made large noises but
accomplish nothing. But let us first
have the engineer and have him give
us q substantial foundation on which
to lay the clty.-Los Angeles Times.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
BIG PICTURE AT
THE EVANGELINE

The greatest picture from every
viewpoint ever shown in Morgan
City, "The Birth OF a Nation" was
shown at the Opera House last
night. The big picture will be shown
again this afternoon and tonight.
Last nights attendance was fair but
a ecord-breaking crowd is expect
ed to see the wonderful production
today and tonight.
The Birth Of Nation is of pow
erful historical value and reproduces
authentic scenes which should be in
delibly impressed upon the minds of
every citizen. Its staging represents
the zenith of picture production and
it's scope is on a scale of surprising
grandeur.
Manager Loeo has again demon
strated that he is making every eff
fort to secure the highest class of
attractions for his patrons. The
Birth of a Nation which he has Sc
cured at great expense is the finest
entertainment yet offered to Nor
gan City. The big feature carries
not only the wordrous story in
motion pictures put is accompanied
by special scenery and an orchestra
of twenty pieces. The music of the
play is inspiring and lends a note of
deeper understanding to the scenes
as they follow in succession.
There is no price too high for
people to pay for an entertainment
which has the historical, patriotic
and pictorial value of the Birth of q
Nation.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
IT PAYS YOU TO BUY At THE
SPECIALITY STORE.
NEW RESTAURANT OPENS

The Canton Restaurant, success
ors to the Commercial Cafe on Rail-
road venue, is now open and ready
for business. The new owner is
Charley Fung and his menu contains
q list Of delicacies which will un-
doubtedly prove popular with lovers
Of good eating. Chinese dishes are
plentifully represented and it is a
novel experience for one to be able
to order a Chicken Chop Suey or
Chinese Noodles and be certain Of
getting just what is ordered.
The new management has
thoroughly prepared the Canton and
the dining room and kitchen shine
with true Oriental brightness. The
Chinese are prove1bially efficient
caterers and this addition to the
City's eating houses will prove very
popular.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
CONGRESS MEETS
Continued from page one)


as the law of nations has assumed
that merchantmen would defend
themselves against privateers or
cruisers, visible craft giving chase
upon the open sea. 1t is common
prudence in such circumstances,
grim necessity, indeed, to endeavor
to destroy them before they have
shown their own intention. They
must be dealt with upon sight, if
dealt with at all.
''The German government denies
the right of neutrals to use arms at
all within the areas Of the sea which
it has prescribed, even in the de-
fense of rights which no modern
publicist has ever before questioned
their right to defend. The intima-
ton is conveyed that the armed
guard which we have placed on our
merchant ships will be treated as
beyond the pale Of law and subject
to be dealt with as pirates would be.
Armed neutrality is Intellectual
enough at best; in such circumstan-
ces and in the face of such preten-
sions it is worse than Intellectual; it
is likely only to produce what it
was meant to prevent; it is practi-
cally certain of the effectiveness Of
belligerents. There is one choice we
cannot make, we are incapable of
making: We will not choose the path
of submission and suffer the most
sacred rights Of our nation and our
people to be ignored or violated.
The wrongs against which we now
array ourselves are no common
wrongs; they cut to the very roots
of human life.
"With a profound sense Of the
solemn and even tragical character
of the steps ! am taking and of the
grave responsibilities which it in
but in unhasitating obedi-
ence to what I deem my constitu
tional duty, l advise that the Con
gress declare the recent course of
the imperial German government to
be in fact nothing less than war
against the government and people
of the United States; that it formal
ly accept the status Of belligerents
which has thus been thrust upon it
and that it take immediate steps not
only to put the country in a more
state Of defense, but also
to exert all its power and employ all
its resources to bring the govern
ment of the German empire to
terms and end the war.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
r.
! LII eE
|iI<Ilee ICQull
| T HELPS u
CALL FOR HIGHEST ABILITY
Time Coming When All America, -.
les Will Employ Managers to D;.
rect Civic Affairs,

A prediction that within Il few vaa.,
this city would adopt the city manape,i
plan OF government was made by Rich
ard 5. Childs. in introducing Henry N
Waite, city manager of Dayton O.. al
the speaker ut the second Saturdo.
afternoon luncheon of the CITY cluhl
OF New York. Mr.. Waite, who tookl
over the direction of the affairs of
Dayton on January l, 19l4-after Con
George Cocktails had refused the most
outlined to about so members what
he had done to earn his $4,000 year.
~ salary. Mr.. Waite. the dean of citvI
managers, was referred to as "logical.l
ly, New York's first manager"
"Out in Dayton we run our mnn,ci.(
pal affairs this way" said Mr.. Waite
FIRST, the people elect Il council orl
commission of five members, whose
duty it is to look about through tho
country and locate Il man who might
capably direct the city's affairs. When
one such is found, the commission
questions him about his experience and
so forth, in much the same way alb
ness man does when he hires q Gle,
II the applicant measures IN to the
standard he is hired. and h.. in turn
selects the heads of the five depart.
mcnts of finance, law, service, safety
and welfare.
an selecting the heads of depart.
ments ability and experience and not
politics count. Personally. | don't
know OF what political persuasion my
departmental heads are. III this way
We are able 10 g,j many men who 9TH
erWise would not think Of running for
office, under the old conditions. For
example. the head Of the welfare de-
partment is q clergyman thoroughly
capable to study out the park and rec.
reation needs of our population.
"Take our finance department as an
example of the efficiency obtanable
under the new plan of government.
We have our finances so systematized
that I-Or any other citizen-can tell
at moment down to a cent just how
any ce the subdivisions Of our budget
stand"
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
Easter IN
Other Lands

M ALL annual festivals among
Christian nations, Easter seems
to have made the most serious
impression, and the customs connected
with it's first celebrations to have lin
gered the longest. Europe, with its
many nations, and, therefore, many
peoples, has ever been the scene of
various ceremonies distinctly belonging
to the separate countries, with the
Latin church always in the lead in the
matter of picturesque symbols and pro-
cessiOns.
Strange customs, sometimes COM
bined with elaborate ceremonies, are
found oftenest in the rural districts,
where the people have not free access
to the towns. and simplicity Of living
does not question the difference be-
tween truth and tradition.
In Brittany many Interesting Gus
toms are observed. It is q land of
legends. The very people, quantity
dressed as they were thousand years
ago, suggest legends and traditions.
When the faith of the Nazarene was
first preached to their ancestors they
held the mammoth stones which
abound in the fields and countryside in
deep veneratiOn.
The church united stories of won
derful stones with the word of Christ,
so that its teaching might sooner de-
velop converts. Fete days were held
in high esteem, and many queer beliefs
and associations became entangled with
the festivals.
On Easter morning at the Church Of
st. Crowley. in the village of Finistere,
Brittany. every man, woman and child
Of the vicinity is in attendance. The
women and children are in their best
frocks and snowiest caps. and the men
are leading the cattle to the door Of
this church, which would do credit to
a city Of size.
There the priest receives the men
and animals, and while the women cluS-
ter around. gravely listening, the cattle
are blessed and the care of st. Crowley
invoked in their behalf This saint is
a great favorite all over Brittany: and,
like so many traditions of the BretOns,
his story is connected with the giant
stones. 1t appears that he was bish-
op of Rome come up to the province
to convert the heather.
He was hunted by wild men until
death seemed near. when suddenly ev.
cry pursuer was turned into stone.
and so they stand today, one group
forming a regular border along the
road from Carnac to Kerlescant.
Mounting many Of these stones are
crucifxes and on Easter morning the
little professions passing through the
fields and along the road to the near
est church stop and rest few mo-
ments and offer up an Easter prayer.
In scattered communities. where there
are few towns, an Easter service Is
often held in the fields. and sermon
preached from a wayside shrine, set In
one of the historical stones.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
MACHINE SHOP
The Nor

The Morgan City Machine Works,
H. ]. Boudreaux, proprietor, is now
open for business in their new build
ing just in the rear of the office
building of the Morgan City Elec-
trio Company. Mr.. Boudreaux has
installed some wonderful machinery
for his work and is prepared to take
care of every class of machine re-
pairing. A contract of large proper
tons has just been given to the new
machine shop by the Louisiana Oys-
ter and Fish Company which in
cludes the installation in one of
their big oyster boats Of Gas
Producer. This will be the second of
the fleet Of oyster boats to use a
Gas Producer.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
How Our Cities Have Grown.


A metropolis grows up in two ways.
At first it expands legitimately, adding
furlong to furlong of growth. Then
It leaps forward and seizes q large
area overnight by act Of legislature q
parliament, sweeping into its n, ll
score Of villages and settlements. 1.SnI
it proceeds to consolidate its position,
as General Joffre might say, by filing
up the intervening spaces. In Euro
pean cities they have an inner ring,
which is the old city, and an outer
ring, which may be anything. New
York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, have
their inner rings, which are the legiti-
mate city, and the outer ring, which
came by the get-big-quick method. New
York succumbed to the promoters
fever in 1898. In that year the city
absorbed large areas of virgin soil,
and a chain of Independent villages,
some of them nearly as old as Manhat'
tan itself. From the Sound to the At
lantic they stretch across the backbone
of Long island and the lower mar
Dor of Staten island, where the local
tradition, in spite Of municipal ferries
and promised tunnels, has remained at
its strongest.
Such frenzied expansion is the rea'
son why the traveller in the nearer sub
urbs of a great city will often come
across a city line which is no longer
the city line. As you near the old city
line from the heart Of population, the
solid blocks Of apartments and mats
thin out. There follow stretches
waste land, market gardens, cemet Z
ries. It is across this zone between IL
old and the new city lines that tn
transit railways throw their surfac
lines and elevated extensions" ana
close behind them are the builders
.criss-crossing the raw acres with theil
long lines Of frame" and brick.-Har3
pcr's Magazine.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
HANG OUT YOUR FLAGS
(From the indianapolis News)

(From the indianapolis News)
Visitors to this city are astonish-
ed at the meager display Of flags.
These people do not understand the
temper of the people Of Indiana.
We are far less emotional than our
brethren of the seaboard states, and
it is assumed that we are less patrio-
tic. Wall street is swathed in ban
ners, vet it would be hard to prove
that there is more patriotism there
than in Indiana. Only the other day
it was announced that in proper
ton to population Indiana had ex-
celled all other states in enlistments.
A soldier with a gun in his hand is
worth many flags.
Yet it is time for our people to
give visible expression to their
patriotism. The town from now on
should blossom with the national
colors. We are practically at war
with a foreign foe, a foe which has
been denounced by our secretary of
state, most mild-mannered man
and one who measures his words, as
a promise breaker and a treaty vio-
lator. There is. therefore, no reason
why we should any longer conceal
our feelings. or fail to blazoh them
to the world. The flag stands for all
that we hold dear, for all that is
challenged by the Prussian auto
cracy. It is the symbol of that liber-
tv that has been. so imprudently
challenged by the eBrlin despotism.
For more than two years we have
been patient almost meekly So
under aggression and insult. The
time has come for our self ASSERTION
but for the assertion of those prin-
ciples in defense of which we must
pledge our lives, ouf fortunes and
our sacred honor. Why not say so?
And how can we say so more drama
tically and periodically than by
flinging to the breeze the banner
Of liberty. We are standing today as
we ever have stood, for the rights of
man and the dignity of humanity.
BY all means let us say so. There is
never any danger that Hoosiers will
be too sentimental. Rather the dan
ger is the other way. To every citi-
zen of Indianapolis we would say,
let the flag speak for you, and give
to your sentiments the beautiful ex-
preston that it is capable of CIV
ing. 1t is the best and greatest flag
in the world. Let it float!
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
SWEET CORN FOR THE
VEGETABLE GARDEN

Why not grow some genui~'
sweet corn in your vegetable garde;
this year? The roasting ears frcDl
the common corn field may be good
but genuine sweet corn is much bet
ter. If you are not growing swec.
corn in your garden, you are mr.
ing one Of the greatest delicacic,
that the summer garden affords.
Stowell's Evergreen is the variet.,
Of sweet corn to plant in Louisiana
It is late-maturing and produces
large ears Of excellent variety.
Sweet corn should be planted or
rich, well-drained land. Soil CO..
ditiors prevailing in successful We,
etable gardens are usually favors.-.>
to sweet corn production. The sect
is generally drilled on a 8 and ons
half foot ridge, dropping 5 to :
seed to the foot and covering FRI
l to 2 inches. In planting it is VII
to wait till the soil is warm, as s.
corn. seed rots readily in cold, "c.
land. Late March or early April is
the usual time for the first planting
at Baton Rouge. Successful plant
ings may be made at intervals OF
two to three weeks to prolong t.
supply during the summer. ~
equivalent of 800 feet row at CO.
planting should give an ample qua
nifty of sweet corn for the average
family, and one and one-half to two
pints of good seed should be suffic-
lent for a planting.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
Mr.. R. Andrews, of Dallas, Texas
Inspector for The w. U. Tel. Co.
was a visitor here today.

Local merchants as a general re-
port, state that there has been a
good demand for garden seed this
spring. This is inded a good sign. It
is probable, that in face of wa.
foodstuffs, and food will continu
to advance in price, even if an G..
secptionally large crop is raised ia
the United States, and every bea"
and potato that is raised this yec-
will add to it's iota to your wealth.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Franklin, La. March %, 1917

Franklin, La. March %, 1917.
Pursuant to request Of members
of the School Board, 9Th ward, St.
Mary Parish, La, concurred in by
the Mayor of Morgan City, La, pub
lie notice is given that will he in
Morgan City, Wednesday, April 4th,
1917, from 8 A. M. to P. M, with
the exception Of the dinner hour,
IL NJ. to / P. NJ, for the purpose Of
registering all citizens, of the 9Th
ward Of said parish, duly qualified
and desiring to do so.
WILBUR H. KRAMER,
Clerk, ex-officio Registrar of voters,
st. Mary Parish, La.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

The Morgan City High School de-
clared half day holiday today so
that the students who desired to do
80, may attend the matinee perfor-
nance Of The Birth of a Nation at
the Evangeline.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
EAGER TO SERVE
Lake Charles, La.
April I, 1917.

April l, 1917.
Ir. Fred Chapman,
Dear Sir and Friend:
l see in the papers that there viii
be quite a lot of patrol boats on the
coast, and l offer my service on
any Of them. I am well acquainted
with the coast from the mouth of
the Mississippi to Galveston, and all
the outlets and tributaries of Gal
weston, Sabine and Morgan City
you can do for me will be
appreciated.
Yours respectfully,
Philip January.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
Easter Fires.

The early Sax0ns used to light Easter
fires on the hills in expression of
their joy; this custom only died out
in the early part of the nineteenth
century. 1t is only observed up to
this day In the ''Woods of Teutobur-
gum" where, on the eve of Easter
Sunday, the fires are Lit, as Of old.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03
Morgan City Daily Review deli
vered to your home 4Oc per month

The Morgan City Electric Co. arr
erecting number Of new creosotet.
poles in rebuilding their city lines
here.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

Stray cow and calf. Owner ca.l
have same by proving property, and
paying expenses. Apply to o. Ditch.
1wk
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

Mr.. E. Maurin Of Patterson is {,
visitor here today.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

! A prudent mother is always on
the watch for symptoms Of worms
in her children. Paleness, lack of
interest in play, and peevishness is
the signal for WHITES CREAM
vERMIFUGE. A few doses of this
excellent remedy puts the end to
the worms and the child soon acts
naturally. Price 25c per bottle. Sold
BY Belanger Drug. Co.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

Mrs. D. Richards of Crowley
the guest of Mrs. J. I. Lipscomb.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

Mr.. Eddie Chauvin is on the sick
list todaq.
Daily Review 20 cents per month
delivered.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-03

Season Of Hope.
Lift up your hearts! Easter is the
festival Of hope, the day Of certainty.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-04-13
McDOnaldVille

Mr.. and Mrs. E. Mckinney spent
the weekend in Blackfoot.
Othel Bishop returned from OAR
lington this week. He visited his
parents there.
Howard Bishop and his wife are
going to move to Springfield for the
summer.
Vivian Hawthorne, from Lost
river, is visiting friends in Mcdonald
Vile. From here he will go to visit
his father and sister at Boyne Lake,
Canada.
William Grays spent Sunday as
guest at the c. E. Haynes home.
B. M. Gray visited his father and
brother here last week.
Mrs. Ann Jensen is reported to be
quite ill. A physician was called to
the case Sunday.
Frank Mckinney and wife and
sister were Blackfoot visitors Mon
day.
Vegetable parchment butter wrap
pers at The Idaho Republican office.