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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
eSl DEER KILLED
Report aud Information Com
cerning Deer Killed In Ver-
mont During Open Season, No
vember 1920, 1917.

Total number of deer killed, 9
days, 1917, 9S1.
Total number of deer killed, IS
days, 1916, 1880.
Largest number of deer reported
from Essex County 156.
Second Largest number reported
from Windham County 124.
Third largest number reported
from Washington County, 106.
Largest bucks reported in La
noble and Orange Counties, $50
pounds each, shot by George Jones
of Hyde Park, and Bryan Fits of
West Fairlee.
Total weight of deer carcasses
killed during open season, 1851
pounds. Average weight of animals,
172.
Number of does illegally or acci-
dentally killed 25.
Number of buck fawnS illegally or
accidentally killed II.
Special efforts were made to main
tain an efficient warden service pa
troll through the past open season,
and as result, lawless hunters have
not been in evidence:~ The policy
has been to prevent violations,
rather than to start prosecutions.
Several wardens report extinguish-
ing fires started by carelessness of
hunters. There has been very few
accidents due to carelessness on
the part of the hunters.
Following is a complete tabulation
for Essex County made from final
reports received in the office of the
Fish and Game Commissioner, at
Cambridge, Vermont, November 80,
1917. This tabulation is made by
towns, giving the number of deer
killed in each town with names of
the successful hunters.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
Timber for Ship Building

A car load of timber for ship
building was loaded at this station
this week consigned to Gloucester,
Mass, and about half a car to Port
land. This timber came from Nor
gan and was cut and hauled by Mr..
Elliott under the direction of a party
sent from the ship yards. The tim
ber consisted of long trees, large in
diameter and perfect growth of
timber.
This shipment is a reminder of
what the government is doing in
building ships necessary to win the
war.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
PROBATE NOTICE

Regular sessions of the Probate
Court for the district of Essex will
be held at GuidhaIl on the first
Wednesday of each month, in the
forenoon.
At Island Pond, the first Wednes-
day of January, April, July and
October, in the afternoon.
At Lunenburg, the second Wednes.
day of January, April, July and Octo.
ber, in the forenoon.
At Concord in the afternoon of the
same days.
Special sessions will be held by
arrangement.
Communications should be sent to
Edwin O. CARL, Judge, Canaan, or
to George A. Hubbard, Register
Guildhall
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
How is Your Fuel Supply

The local fuel committe find the pros
pect oil getting an adequate supply Of
coal for Island Pond is doubtful
We probably will have to use wood for
fuel.
If not provided with fuel for the winter
report your need to the committee by
Dec. 10th, that they may be able to
estimate the amout required.
While we are without au thority in the
matter of handling wood we cannot be
Of assistance unless we have thisinforma-
ton.
Local Fuel Committe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
Lunenburg

George H. Ramsdell, Geo. Covey
Charles Mclaughlin, Fred Siviney,
Dan Dodge, E. M. Dodge, James
Greenwood, Hypoliet Andewart, R.
P. Monahan, E. Blood, Geo. Coony
Rollo Bell.
Maidstone
Ben j. Ford, F. A. Curtis, Jacob
Master, A, H. Gammell, C. M.
Leach. George Humphrey, D. H.
Quimby. C. A. Eliot. H. F. Cutler,
George Bond.
Harry Chase, j. O. Weymouth,
Cypheus DUPONT, R. F. Mason, H.
V. Drown, W. P. Barrows, M. D.
Francis, Alphonse Turgeon, Edmund
LIE Clair, Ralph Preston, ]. F. Dan
iels, George Ladd, Ira Daniels, Frank
Welch, Ed. Lelan.
Warren's Gore
Ed. Rogers, Charles Walker.
Wenlock
j. J. Corkins, G. L. Westcott, Will
Wright, Bert Marshall.
Victory
Ernest Gathercole, E. ]. Wilkie
Bernice Wilkie, Raymond Peterson
Clyde Rivers, Vincent Hill, AlIer
Lynaugh. Harry Carr, Horace Goss
F. B. Kerr, Ernest Brown, A. E
Gallup, Stillman Emery, Bruce
Wakefield, Albert Barnes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
Red Cross Notes

The local Branch has shipped the
following finished articles to TIE
supply house in Boston, as a result
of the past months work:
Six pajama suits, twelve surgical
shirts, thirty-six comfort pillows,
twelve dozen ten inch mouth wipes,
forty-three dozen four inch mouth
wipes, forty-four two inch mouth
wipes, twelve helmets, thirty-six
pairs wristlets, six scarfs, forty. five
pairs socks.
Seven sweaters, seven comfort
bags andseven housewives have been
furnished to men leaving for Camp
Devens and one sweater has been
sent to an Island Pond man already
in France.
Cash gifts during November:
Christian Endeavor Society $500
Eastern Star 800
Boys class Cong'l Sunday School 200
Court Island Pond, l. 0. F. 2.25
Eastern Star 800
Business mems supper 1915
Mrs. B. Howes 500
A friend. 1900
Will all members of the branch re-
member that December 20, is the
time for paying regular pledges for
the work. 1t is hoped that all un-
paid pledges will be met on or be,
fore that date.
Mrs. H. E. Randall and Mrs. Jen-
ME Edmunds have been elected dele
gates to attend the New England
Division meeting Of the American
Red Cross to be held in Boston,
December 18th.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
MUST HAVE MORE MEAT
Why Backyards and Farms
Must Raise More Chickens,
Ducks and Geese.

Because of the war the meat reserves
of the world are diminished The herds
of live stock in Europe have been reduced
by slaughter made necessary in order to
feed the Armies. Our own meat produc-
ton in the years just preceding the war
was barely sufficient for our uses. And
yet we are now called upon not only to
feed ourselves, but to feed Europe to a
large extent, and we must do it if we
win the war,
Where will we get the meat? You can
do your part, on your farm and in your
backyard by producing more poultry
increasing the supply Of eggs and chickens
geese and ducks. Our total number Of
beef animals can not be increased with
sufficient quickness. Several years are
required to build up cattle herds. Hogs
can be increased considerably in year
They can be increased faster than any
other meat animal. But poultry can be
doubled in year. 1t offers the fastest
and cheapest possible source Of meat,
increase. That is why it is so important
that everyone help in poultry production
next year.
The more poultry and eggs we produce
the most poultry and eggs we will eat.
The more Of that food we eat the less
beef and pork we will need or want
leaving that much more to go to Europe.
Thus we do indirectly the thing we can t
do directly, Bypoultry production we get
quickly more meat to win the war,
although we can not increase in that time
the number OF our meat animals.
Get some hens. You will help to win
the war. Yon will reduce your own cost
OF living. You will turn waste into food
Get some good hens.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
POULTRY THE BEST
CHANCE.
Back Yards and Farms Can
Double the Nations Meat Sup


ply.
Poultry must be produced next year
in places where it has not been produced
before, and everywhere that poultry has
been produced that production must be
increased, 1t is necessary that people in
the country and in the town answer alike
to this call. Farms and backyards must
both do their bit, for the doubling of our
poultry production next year is an
indispensable item in the Nations food
production program-a program which
must be carried out if we are to win
the war.
The meat supplies available for Euro
pean use are short. Meat must be
supplied if the war is won-by the forces
who fight for freedom. The war will be
won if we fail in food production-but
not by us. We must understand what
will happen if we do not provide the
enormous quantities of foodstuffs that
the Allies can not produce for themselves.
Are we going to feed our Army on
chickens and eggs? OF course not. But
by greatly increasing our production Of
chickens and eggs, and by eating those
chickens and eggs ourselves we will,
naturally, eat that much less beef and
pork. In turn, that beef and pork
can be sent to Europes
Bhe United States Department of
Agriculture calls upon the country to
double poultry production next year.
That can be done if the farms will keep
an average Of loo hens instead of an
average Of 40 hens, as at present, and if
every family in town will keep enough
hens in the backyard to produce all the
eggs used by that family,-or two hens
to each person.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
Heavy Snow Fall

The last week in November 1917
will be noted for the large fall of
snow, the depth of snow and severity
of the cold season making an in
stance out of the ordinary for a
Vermont winter.
The snow fall in this section is es-
timated from IL to 18 inches, and
there has been several cold and
clustering days.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
Essex County
Averill
Brunswick

Brunswick
Leslie Bradbury, Elmer Taylor,
Dennis Ladue, Robert Marshall, Glib
son Perry, E. H. Wheeler, B. F.
Kimball, James Conn, Warren
Courbet, |. R. Wolcott, E. w. Ham
Z ilton.
Brighton
Clayton Smith. W. F. Tucker,
Orlando Danforth, Nelson La
mere. L. E. Currier, Josep Davio,
A. Stott, F. E. Minarj, Nose Page,
C. H. Barnes, L. N. Riggie, C.
K. Ripley, George Riggie, Henry
Lafountaine, Claude Foster, Paul
Castonguay, Felix Castonguay, En-
nest Castonguay, M. Blanchette,
Bert Powers.
Bloomfield
L. C. Powers, E. H. Lee, E. E.
Smith, A. H. SWEET, Clayton Mann,
E. L. Gaines, J. C. Borland, w. H.
Lyman, C. L. Phillips, Richard Nor
ris, WV. Spinar, Ralph Wiggin,
Ernest Sheldon, Erwin Stewart,
Walter Houston.
Canaan
E. J. Kelly, Ray French, VIM.
Dwinnell, John Locke.
Concord
Zenas jerks, D. A. Fisher, Ernest
Ort, E. Adair, D. A. FisEer, w. H.
Crawford, Rufus Young, Willie
Brown, Peter Martin. Hollis Morrill,.
East Haven
o. L. Worthen, G. E. Spencer.
Warren Gaskill, Walter Gaskill, R.
Evans, W. A. La Bounty, H R. Pal
mer, Guy Watson, H. E. Woodward,
Fred Lamoine, Frank Woodward.
Ferdinand
Elzear Herbert, James Hanna, P.
R. Moutroup, Lewis Rowell, Harry
Magoon, A. G. Baird, Thorn as Buzzo,
H. S. Moultroup.
Guildhall
L. D. Stockwell
> CRANKY
Fred Kelly, Gilman Howe, Clar-
ence Gutherie, Charles Stafford, w.
o. Stafford, Arthur Sanborn, o. d.
~ Shores.
Lewis
Clifton Barrup, Harry Powers
Charles Horn, M. A. Morris, B. T
Jackman, George Metcalf, Bert
Powers, c. D. Pierce, M. Phillips, A
A. Webster, C. S. Heath.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-07
Riuirt One to Switch

Irate Pment--I warned you boyH
and now I'm going to switch you for
making such q racket.
Bobby-wel, switch Johnny; we're
playing train and he's the locomotive
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
SIZE OF UNCLE SANS BELT
Some Interesting Figures Regarding
the Area Under Control Of
Canal Board.

The total area of the Canal zone
which includes all the land and water
within five miles on either side Of the
center line Of the canal, but does not
include the area within the three-mile
limit on the Atlantic and Pacific ends
of the canal. is 441k square miles, OF
which the land area is 1925 square
miles. The area of Gatun Lake with
in the five-mile limit is 1864 miles, the
area of Miraflores Lake, 10 miles, and
the area Of the canal channel itself .65
miles. The area was given in 1911 al
44S square miles, which was correct at
that time, but by treaty proclaimed
February IS, 1915, an area of 6A
square miles adjoining Panama City
was coded to Panama in exchange fol
two small tracts, one of them in the
city of Colon, on which one of the de
tense batteries of the canal is situated
The same treaty gave the Panams
Canal administration control of all the
waters Of Gatun Lake outside of the
fve-mile limit and all land adjoining
the lake up to the 100-foot contour
line, adding 81 square miles to the
44114 miles within the zone, making
the area of the Canal Zone and con.
trolled territory 5021s square miles,
The Christian Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
Another David Harum.

Look here" said the would-be fol.
lower of the hounds, didn't you sell
me this horse?"
"Why, yes" said the dealer; "that's
me-"
"Well, sir, you're swindler That's
what you are! I understood from you
that this beast was thoroughly sound
in wind and limb. / find after trying
it, that it's spawned and blind, and
got the staggers. And / want to know
what you're going to do about it?"
"Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll
give you the name Of the best veter.
mary surgeon In the town. I simply
can't stand by and see the poor beast
suffer-" - Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele.
graph.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
Cut Infant Mortality.

When the recently deceased Gen.
eral Gallieni became governor general
Of Madagascar in the early nineties,
he was appalled, at the unsanitary con-
ditions and the high death rate.
Though soldier and not physician,
he set about to remedy these condi-
tons.
He obtained the happiest results in
his campaign against infant mortality.
He had native women trained as mid
W. $ and he established and popular
lied maternity hospitals. He regulated
marriage and restricted divorce. He
exempted the fathers of five children
from taxation and he taxed bachelors
instead.
These and many other works pro-
duced such a change that the French
Academy of Medicine awarded him a
gold medal, most exceptional distinc.
uon for one who was not a doctor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
NJ
Afoaa for Wounds.

An Americans and other tourists
who have visited Scotland and the
north Of England have waxed en-
thusiastic over the beautiful coloring
Of the moors and mountains which
present to the eye a riot Of tints-
pink, crimson, yellow, green and rus
set. This is furnished by sphagnum
moss with which, literally, the coun-
tryside is carpeted, for it is as luxuri-
ously soft to the feet as it is a delight
to the vision.
From an appeal issued by the Aber.
deem Spnasnum moss joint commit
tee 1t appears that this moss is being
furnished In great quantities for sur.
gical dressings by this organization
to the hospitals in Britain, France
Macedonia, Egypt, Italy, Mesopotamia
and elsewhere. A department for sub
limating these dressings has been es
tablished and the committee is consid
ering plan to compress the moss by
machinery into fiat sheets, in which
form it Is light and portable and emf
nently suitable for dressing stations
field ambulances, etc, and for trans
port overseas to distant hospitals
where surgical dressings are sorely
needed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
TEACH CHILDREN RIGHT WAY
Education That Teaches Them Merely
to Avoid Wrong Cannot Be
Called Sufficient.

The average man is naturally pessi-
mistic, or inclined that way, and is
apt to spend more time and effort find
ing fault with things as they are, and
trying to tear them down, than to cor
recting them, or substituting better
things.
This comes from, or is largely due
to, the prevailing habit of teaching
children and young people to avoid do
ing wrong rather than teaching them
to do right. In this way they become
SO impressed with the immensely OF
wreng and the Httleness of right that
they grow up with a feeling that wrong
has gotten the better of right.
The natural conclusion must Their be
that we are going TO the everlasting
bow-wows, and the very best we can
do is 10 put the brakes on and go as
slowly as possible.
And yet every one of us ought to
know, and should realize, that the way
to get rid of wrong is to substitute
right, for wrong disappears before
right as darkness before light, or cold
before heat.
Where wrong is, right is not; and
where right is, wrong cannot come.
Right can never become wrong, nc
more thi.n love can become hate
Erasmus Wilson, in the Pittsburgh Ga.
zette-Times. ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
SCHEME TO THE RESCUE
Chemist Offers Mankind Kind Of
i Chemical Soup as Nutritious a.
Beef Extract.

Science is hurrying to the rescue.
Along sanitary and military and me.
chanical lines it has made marvellous
progress. In the culinary field it leaves
much to be desired.
Now comes a Philadelphia chemist
and offers mankind a mineral soup
that is pronounced fully as nutritious
as the finest beef extract. He told
the Franklin institute the other night
how the substitute is prepared. 1t is
a decidedly peculiar recipe and one
that might well make the ordinary
cookbook shudder. You take portions
: Ct sodium phosphate and calcium car
Donate and ammonium sulphate, add a
little sugar and small amount OF
Yeast. These ingredients are mixed
and set away until reaction by autoly-
sis ensues, and brown sticky paste
that has all the nutritive qualities OF
commercial beef extract is produced.
According to the chemist it Is the
yeast that transforms the inorganic
minerals into the pronounced organic
meat SUBSTITUTE. nc ycdSL SOutQAA,
fermentation agents called engines
which are responsible for the altera.
ton, and produce the food qualities
from the chemicals. There were doubt.
ers about the table at the Franklin in.
stitute. They insisted upon tasting
the "stone SOUP" and pronounced II
good. They even declared that 1t was
fully equal in nutrition and appear
ance to the market variety, and each
of the samplers pronounced the odol
remarkably beeflike.
! Incidentally, the chemist announced
| that the cost of "stone SOUP" he called
it synthetic meat, is less than thai
from tie OK or sheep = which, o.
course, was to be expected.
However, it can be assumed tha
even If the substitute is cheaper an(
+, equally nutritious, it will be Ion.
} time before it takes the place OF scrap
pie on the Philadelphia dinner plate
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
s.. E REAL HIGH


It is 4 weird tale OF finance and
foaa costs which has been brought to
ST. Louis hg Henry Herschkowitz.
formerly e7nslatar at the United
States embassy, City of Mexico.
IEerschkowitz said ne was forced to
leave Mexico by II. c. L.
Articles of food in the Mexican cap
ital have different prices, according to
the kind of money paid for them. AID
egg, for example. only costs 10 cents in
silver money. But in Mexican paper
money the same egg will cost 25 pesos.
The peso for many years has been
considered worth 80 cents in United
States money. thus bringing the egg
price to S12.50. But the money chang
ers declare the value of the peso has
deprecated to one-quarter of cent.
1t is the same with butter. A pound
of medium quality butter can be pur-
chased in the City of Mexico for only
S125 United States money. 1t will
cost So. in Mexican silver and 625
pesos in PAPER money.
Even in the United States coin the
price of shoes has doubled, while corn
is $50 per cent higher than in 1913,
and charcealsis $50 per cent higher
Charcoal is universally used for cook
ing.
According to Herschkowitz, there is
no police protection in the City OF
Mexico. Instead martial law prevails,
but it does not prevent the holder
thieves from plying their trade, al
though detection means not a trial
but immediate execution.-St. Louis
Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
Writer'S Ways of Work.

A writer in La Revue of Paris In
IN article concerning the idiocyncra-
sizes Of authors, comments on the PEN
chant many show for saving their lit
erary labors for the night hours.
George Sand hardly ever wrote any
thing except at night. She began
writing ordinarily at midnight and
continued until four in the morning.
OF accomplishment during these hours
Edmond de Goncourt said:. you
know she works from midnight until
four O'Clock. And you know what hap
pened to her once. A monstrous thing !!
One day she finished a novel at one
o'clock in the morning-and she began
another that very night. Turning out
copy is function with Nine. Sand"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
WOODS THAT ARE DURABLE
Above All, the Cypress Is Coming Into
General Use for Purposes of
Interior Decoration.

Wood, its uses and, above all, its
prices, are matters of moment to ev-
eryone who contenplates building, re-
modelling or adding to a house.
There are some southern pines that
are comparatively reasonable and
which give good results Houses built
of them in Virginia and the Carolinas
attest TO their durability. 1t is suit
able for interior finish, as it has va
riety of grains ard takes on a good
finish, whether in soft stain or hard
enamel paint.
Cypress is being used for many pur-
poses. The great swamps of the South
are yielding up their forests and the
lumber is finding its way into the
northern markets. This is not as
strong q wood as some others, but it
has good lasting qualities and is equal
ly good for exterior and interior fin
lsh. 1t is very satisfactory finished in
Its natural color.
A wood that is finding much favor
for interior finish is the red gum, also
from the South. 1t may be had highly
figured or plain, quarter-sawed or plain
sawed, and it takes very fine finish.
The red gum is finished in its natural
tones or stained to initiate mahogany
and sometimes brown walnut.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
USE FOR MIDDLE AGED MAN
That He Is "Fit Only for the Scrap
Heap" Denied by Chicago
Capitalist.

To cheat the scrap heap Of men
over forty-fve years is the purpose of
q committee of 10 large employers
recently organized in Chicago with
Benjamin J. Rosenthal, capitalist,
al its head. The committee was or
ganized, Mr.. Rosenthal said, to upset
the fallacious theory that men between
the ages of forty-five and sixty-iye
are fit only for the scrap heap"
''Twenty middle aged men whom we
have enlisted will be employed by one
of the largest houses in Chicago" said
Mr. Rosenthal. "The head of this
house, to make an efficiency test, will
put them in the correspondence de-
partment. Alongside of them will be
20 young men and each individual
will get the same work to do.
''If they do half as much work as
the younger men they will be paid halt
as much. If their efficiency is equal
to the younger mems they will receive
the same salary. Recently l took a
score of experienced middle aged men
and put them to work wrapping par
GELS in large concern beside 20 young
men. They did as much work as the
younger and in some instances more. y
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-02-23
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Majority and Plurality.

In politics the plurality is the great
est of more than two numbers and Is
also the excess of the highest number
of votes cast for any one candidate
over the next highest number. When
a candidate receives out Of 10000 votes
cast 1000 and two other candidates
receive respectively $500 and $500,
the first Is elected by plurality,
though he has received less than a
majority of the whole vote. and he Is
said to have plurality Of 500 votes.
II the numbers are 5000. 5000 and
1000. the majority u 1000 and The
plurality il 5000 A majority. there
fore, must be more than half the en-
tire vote cast, and 4 candidate's ma
1ority Is. then, the difference between
the number of votes be received and
the combined number Of votes cast for
all other candidates; his plurality is
the difference between his own num-
Der and the number received by the
candidate nearest to him. Oftentimes
a candidate receives a plurality. but
not majority. Unless there Is tie
there is always q plurality. - Path
finder.