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NORTH HANCOCK.

irving Stewart is home from Auburn.
John A. Mckay Was home from Calais
last Tuesday.
Leon Stewart and Miss Christie Mex "
were home from the Ellsworth high
school and Miss Frances clesves from the
Bar Hsroor hisb school, for ne Thanks
giving recess.
f. L. Mckay, who has been ON hunt
ing trip to Lambert Lake, came nome last
Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving. He
brought home a deer.
Dec 2 NJ
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tautuaI Bfuffii Column.

EDITED BY AUNT nApsE"

The purposes of this column sucIine }
stated In the title and motto-ii Is for the mat !
benefit, and aims 10 he helpful and hopeful
Heins for the common good, It Is for the cam
mon use-a public servant. a pui yeyor of IN
formation and suggestion, a medium for the 10
terchange OF ideas. In this capacity II solicits
communications. and Its success depends largely
on the supper, given IL in this respect Com
municatione must be signei. but the name of
writer will not be printed except lay permission
Communications will be subject 10 approx al or
rejection by the editor of the column. buI non
will DE rejected without good reason. Ahdre-'
a. Communications
The AMERICAS.
En-wnrth. Ne
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SWANS ISLAND.

q. F. Newman has gone to Portland
and Boston on business.
Miss Alice Gross and Miss Helen
Bonsey were home from the Rock!and
high school for Thanksgiving.
week. Mrs. Bick more has been 10 Port
land the past three months, receiving
medical treat ment.
Dec.2. :.
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Maine

~
bring before the @DRVE1
American people in MNNHA
a forcibie manner lfIItM
the need of saving ~H
food and sharing II 49,
with the Allies and
liberated nations. the U. S. Food Ad
ministration has named the presen
week, December LIST TO 7thl as Con
servation Week for World Relief"
Clergymen, food conservation work
ers, school children. heads OF fraternal
patriotic organizations. women's clubs
etc. are cooperating in having a di
rect message from Herbert Hoover
reach the public.
Conservation is vital to the relief
stricken Europe. The Harvest sea
son has come and gone and whatever
food is exported must come from our
surplus and from our savings. very
largely the latter" says the Food Ad
ministration. Certain foods such as
meats, fats and dairy products. II is
true. are produced throughout the year
but even these depend largely on feeds
and fodder, supplies of which are linn
tied and cannot be replenished until
the next harvest.
"The original pledge made by the
Food Administration in behalf Of the
people of the United States was 1T-1-2
million tons of food to be shipped over.
seas by July /. 1919. This amount of
food is SO per cent greater than last
year With Belgium and France and
other areas liberated and millions in
South Central Europe clamoring for
food, the United States is now under
taking to increase its exports from
17-1-2 to 20 million tons. The Medi-
terranean Sea routes are now suf-
ficiently safe for bringing wheat from
India and Australia, hence our exports
will consist largely of fats, meats and
feeds. Feed is essential for milk pro
duction. of which the stricken nations
are in critical need.
The end of the war will not imme
diately, or for several months at least
bring an end of food regulation in the
United States. In fact, 1t is feared
that the coming winter will see world
wide hardships. and the regulation of
food and the demands upon America.
. Christian and humane nation will be
greater than ever before during the
next eight or ten months. Where we
Aave been saving ana conserving food
Tor ov II q year in order TO help our
own soldiers win this great war. now
We p st save and conserve food TO
say imam lives in Belgium, North
ance. Serbia and other lands re-
nom the German yoke
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Thank you, AZ, 3" for the fine poem so
true to life at the present time, when
many are looking for the home coming
of 1.-THE boys" A. in all lie. there will
he the mlngling of happiness and sadness,
as Is he case always, in war. An author
of long ago wrote these words, "In peace,
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and 6 good deal OF
the time was not
able to 60 about
Our greatest desire
was to have q child
in our home and one
day my husband
cam e back from
town with q bottle
of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Co m pound and
wanted me to try it.
1t brought relief
-
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LOYALTY IN LITTLE
THINGS LAST PROOF
OF PATRIOTISM

Americans without murmuring cut
their sugar allowance from four
pounds a month 10 three and then as
long as need be to two pounds for 10y
alty's sake.
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MARLBORO.
Dec. 2.

Mics Ruth Remick, ~bo has employ
ment in Dexter, is nome for few days.
Shirley Hodgkins and wife have gone
TO Methuen, Mass, for the winter.
Dec. 2. ARE.
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Food Will Win the World.

America earned the gratitude of al
lied nations during war by sharing
food. America und.r peace may win
the worlds good will by saving to
share
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DEMOCRACY VS.. AurocRAcy.

! There is no royal road to .
+ food conservation. We can only .
+ accomplish this by the voluntary .
!. action OF our whole people. each .
+ element In proportion to its .
+ needs. II is a matter Of equality .
I. of burden" .
+ The truth OF this statement, .
+ made by the Quilted States Food /.
+ Administrator soan after we en- .
+ tered the wat. has been borne .
+ out by the history OF our ex- :
= ports. AutCcra.ic food control .
+ In the lands OF aar enemies has .
!. broken down. While deneeratic .
7 food sharing has maintained tho .
= health and STREE Of this couS- :
= try and Of the Allies
+ .
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AMHERST.
Nov. "a.

Mrs. L. e. Crosby is in Bangor where
her daughter Marion lie i'll OF influenza.
Fred Roberts. who has been employed
for Schoppe, is home for short time.
Mrs. Lincoln Silsby and son OF Aurora
called on relatives in Amherst Sunday.
Carolyn B. Siisby. superintendent OF
schools, has returned from Otis, where
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ne did not eat a meal for five years
Peruna is sold everywhere. You
may buy 1t in either liquid or tab
let form. Ask for DR.. Hartman,
Well Known peruna Tonic and /,
you are seeking health take nothing
else. Insist upon Peruna.
IL you are sick and sufrerinr
write The Peruna Company. Dent
II. Columbus. Ohio. for DR.. Hart
mans Health Book. The book ia
free and may help you. Ask your
dealer for a Peruna Almanac.
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The bells boom out to the cloudy sky,
The deep drums beat Unanimously,
And the martial music's crash and cry
Make all the city dumb.
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Don't wait until cold and the grip
have a firm hold. Take Lanes
cold and grip Tablets as soon as you
feel cold coming on. Neglect is
dangerous and often spells Pneu-
monia Keep package handy for
emergency. Results are guaranteed.
Sold by druggists everywhere.
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without distress. He says: Il am
a farmer and must be exposed to
all kinds of weather. After years
of suffering, a druggist recon-
mended Feruna. / took all together
FIVE bottles and am a well man.
Formerly, / could not do a days
work Now. farm work does no,
fatigue me in the least Peruna Is
the best medicine and tonic on the
market Time only strengthens my
admiration for II, especially for
catarrh and colds.
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! D~ar 4unf A1dqe;
l.. often think how much should like 10 be
at your reception" / do send love and kind
wishes for ali and have no don bt there will be
many happy bome-comings Thanksgiving
day. z.
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Embellishments.
THE FARMER MUST HAVE RUGGED HEATH
Many Break Dozens and Failures
Due to Exposure and Hard Work
Catarrh in Some Of It. Many Form.
Claims Thousands

Every farm family has its medicine cabinet o,. :,
almost every one will be found bottle DR. Harn,s
World Famous Peruna. For coughs, colds and Cats
1t is invaluable It's is indicated In all cases -
catarrhal Inflammation and congestion whether of -
piratory organs stomach. bowels organs OF ~
body
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advertisements
THE JOY OF
MOTHERHOOD
Came to this Woman after
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to
Restore Her Health

Ellensburg, Ws~h.-" After I was
married was not well for long time
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parents bury their children. Much SYM
pathy is felt for our sister "LyslI," tho
is going through this sad experience.
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Haggsrd with toll. fatigue and pain,
soiied snd smoky with battle stain,
Back they come To tn -ir homes again,
Changed as by many years;
But leaning out from the gazing bands
May woman silent stands,
VINO longs to grasp their hard b. 'wn hands
AID wash Them with their tears.
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There are tender eyes at every pane,
And spite OF wind and sh fling rain.
From square and alley, street and lane.
The eager pc pie come.
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Mr. W. 800 lincoln Ohio sursral
with Inflammation OF the Innings
According a Ave v
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lying slack in her lap, all as if she
hadn't heard. The long silence irked
him. He pulled out his watch, looked
at it, and began winding it. He mend
ed the fire so that it would be safe
for the night; bolted a window. Ev-
cry minute or two he stole a look at
her, but she was always just the
same. Except for the faint rise and
fall of her bosom, she might have
been a picture, not woman.
At last he said again, "Come along
Rose dear"
It'll be too late in October" she
said. "Thats why wanted to de-
eide things tonight. Because we must
begin right away" Then she looked
up into his face. "It will be too late in
October," she repeated, unless we be-
gin now"
The deep, tense seriousness of her
voice and her look arrested his full
attention.
"Why?" he asked. And then, "Rose,
what do you meanT
"We're going to have a baby in
October" she said.
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somewhere, or in a fiat, so that you
will be free; and can work-be some
sort Of help"
"You can wash the dishes and scrub
the foors," he supplemented, "and I
can carry my lunch to the office with
me In a little tin box" He looked at
his watch. "And now that the things
reduced to an absurdity, let's go to
bed. It's getting along toward two
o'clock"
"You don't have to get to the office
till nine tomorrow morning." said
Rose. "And I want to talk it out
now. And I don't think I said any
thing that was absurd"
81 shouldn't have called it absurd"
he admitted after rather long 81
fence. "But it's exaggerated and un-
necessary. Next october, when the
hase on this house runs out, we can
manage, perhaps, to change the scale
a little. There you are! Now do stop
worrying about it and let's go to bed"
But she sat there just as she was,
Atariug st the dying fire. her hands
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disposition to talk humorously over
old times with her old friends, in
cluding her brother and sister, and a
sort of dismayed acquiescence in the
smoky seriousness, the inadequate
civilization, of the city of her birth.
Toward Rose herself, the contessa
was, one might say, studiously affec-
tionate. She avoided being either dis
agreeable or patronizing. Rose could
see, indeed, how she avoided it.
About this time the question where
Rose and Rodney were going to live
after their lease on the McCrea house
ended, had begun to press for an an
swer. October first was when the
lease expired, and it wasn't far from
the date at which they expected the
baby. They spent some lovely after
Moons during the days of the emerg-
ing spring, cruising about looking at
possible places.
This was the situation when Har-
riet took hand in it. It was situa-
ton made to order for Harriet to
take a hand in. She'd sized it up at
a glance, made up her mind in three
minutes what was the sensible thing
for them to do, written a note to
Florence McCrea in Paris, and then
bided her opportunity to put her idea
into effect. To her Rose was simply a
well-meaning, somewhat inadequately
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CHAPTER Xl-Continued.

But she went steadily Oh "You
we're always so dear about it. But
tonight-oh, Rodney !" Her
silly, ragged voice choked there and
stopped, and the tears brimmed up
and spilled down her cheeks. But
she kept her face steadfastly turned
to his.
'"rhat's what I said about being
married and not sowing wild oats,
suppose" he said glumly. "It was a
Joke. Do you suppose I'd have said it
If I meant it?"
"It wasn't only that" she managed
to go on. ''It was the way they looked
at the house; the way you apologized
for my dress; the way you looked
when you tried to get out of answer
Ing Barry Lakes questions about
what you were doing. Oh, how l
despised myself! And how I knew
YOU and they must be despising mel"
'"The one thing felt about you ali
the evening"" he said, with the pa
tence that marks the last stage of
cAdSpefdIlOu, was pIlue' was TALL
er crazily proud of you."
"As my lover you were proud Of
me-" she said. "But the other man
the man that's more truly you-was
ashamed, as I was ashamed. Oh, it
doesn't matter! Being ashamed won't
accomplish anything. But what We'll
do is going to accomplish something"
"What do you mean to do?" he
asked.
II want you to tell me first" she
said, chow much money we have, and
how much we've been spending" q
81 don't know" he said stubbornly.
81 don't know exactly"
you've got enough, haven't you,
Of your own mean, there's
enough that comes in every year, to
live on, If you didn't earn cent by
practicing law? Well what I want
to do, is to live on that. I want to
live, however and wherever we have
toto live on that-out in the suburbs
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CHAPTER XII.

The Door That Was to Open.
What silly little idiot she'd been
not to have seen the thing for her
self! She'd been, all the while, beat.
ing her head against blind walls when
there was a door there waiting to
open of itself when the time came.
Motherhood! There'd be a doctor
and a nurse at first, of course, but
presently they'd go away and she'd
She could care for him with her own
hands, feed him-her JOY reached an
ecstasy at this-from her own breast.
That life which Rodney led apart
from her, the life into which she had
tried with such ludicrous unsuccess
this new life which was to open before
her in a few short months now. Mean
while, she not only must wait
she could well afford to.
That was why she could listen with
that untroubled smile of hers to the
terrible things that Rodney and
James Randolph and Barry Lake and
Jane got into the way Of hurting
across her dinner table, and to the
more mildly expressed but equally
alkaline cynicisms of Jimmy Wallace.
Jimmy was dramatic critic on one
of the evening papers as well as bit
of playwright. He was slim, cool,
smiling, highly sophisticated young
man, who renounced all privileges as
an interpreter of life in favor of re-
naming an unbiased observer Of it.
He never bothered to speculate about
what you ought 70 do--he waited to
see what you did.
Well, in the light of the miraculous
transformation that lay before her,
Rose could listen undaunted to the
tough philosophizings her husband and
Barry Lake delighted in as well as to
the mordant merciless realities with
which Doctor Randolph and Jimmy
Wallace confirmed them. She wasn't
Indifferent to it all.
"Jim's pretty weird when he gets
going" Eleanor Randolph said to Fred
erica, on the next day after they had
been dining at the Aldriches', "but that
Barry Lake has a sort of surgical way
of discussing just anything, and his
wife's as bad.
"We never got off women all the
evening. Barry Lake had their his
tory down from the early Egyptians,
and Jim got off string of patholog-
ical freaks. And then Rodney came
out strong for economic independence,
only with his own queer angle on it,
Of course. He thought it would be
fine thing, but it wouldn't happen un-
til the men insisted on it. When a
girl wasn't regarded as marriageable
unless she had beenstrained to trade
or a profession, then things would be-
gin to happen. think he meant 1t,
too.
"Well, and all the while there sat
Rose, taking it all in with those big
eyes of hers, smiling to herself now
and then; saying things, too, some
times, that were pretty good, though
nobody but Jimmy seemed to under
stand, always, just what she meant.
They've talked before, those two. But
she was no more embarrassed than
as if we'd been talE'ng embroidery
stitches"
So far as externais went, her life,
that spring, was immensely simplified.
The social demands upon her, which
had been so insistent all winter.
stopped almost automatically. The
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civilized young person, the Denenclary,
through her marriage with Rodney, of
piece Of unmerited good fortune.
When she got Florence McCrea' s
answer to her letter, she took the
first occasion to get Rodney off by
himself and talk a little common
sense into him.
"What about where to live, Rod
ney?" she asked. "Made up your
mind about it yet? It is time someone
with a little common sense straight
ened you out about this"
Harriet couldn't be sure from the
length of time he took seeing that
his pipe was properly lighted, wheth-
er he altogether liked this method of
approach or not.
Common sense always was a sort
of speciality of yours, sis," he said at
last, "and Strengthening out. You
were always pretty good at it." Then
out of a cloud of his own smoke,
"Fire away"
"Well, in the first place." she said,
Il
lucky if the paint was dry and the
thing was fit to move into by the first
Of September"
"But we've got to get out Of here,
anyway, in October. And that means
we've got to have some sort Of place
to get into. It is an awkward time,
I'll admit"
"No, you haven't" she said. 'You
can stay right here another six
months, if you like. I've heard from
Florence. When I found how things
stood here, I wrote and asked her if
she'd lease for six months more if
she got the chance, and she wrote back
and simply grabbed at it."
Rodney smoked half way through
his pipe before he made any comment
on this suggestion. "This house isn't
just what we want" he said. 'In the
first place, it's expensive"
Harriet shrugged her shoulders,
picked up one Of Florence's poetry
books and eyed the heavily fooled bind
| ing with a satirical smile before she
replied.
"I'd an idea there was that in it,
she said at last. "Freddy said some
thing. Rose had been talking
to her." Then, after another little
silence and with a sudden access of
vehemence: "You don't want to go
and do a regular fool thing, Roddy.
You're getting on perfectly splendid
ly. But if you pull up and go to live in
barn somewhere and stop seeing any.
body-people that count, mean"
Rodney grunted. you're beyond
your depth, SIS" he said. "Come back
where you don't have to swim. The
expense isn't a capital consideration,
I'll admit that. Now go on from
there"
"That's like old times" she OBJ
served with a not ill-humored grim
ace. 81 wonder if you talk to Rose
like that. Oh, I know the house is
yather solemn and absurd. It's Flor
ence herself all over, that's the size
of IL. But what does that matter for
six months more"
He pocketed his pipe and got up
out of his chair.
"There's something In it." he ad-
mitted. "Tu think it over"
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HIDES AND PELTS.
Dry Hides.

Flint butcher. lb. lb.......-........ 80
Flint fallen, lb. .....: :........... 28
Flint bull and stag, lb. II
Flint culls and glue, lb. ........ 15
Salt hides, &c to &c 10. less.
Horse hides 1/2 to 2/3 price of green
salted.
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Grain and Flour Prices at Minneapolis.
Chicago Live Stock Quotations.

Chicago-Hogs-1Bulk,. $16.1O91SS.4o;
Q16.OO; pigs, $12.O0Q14.S5.
Cattle-Native steers $7.50@13.85;
stockers and feeders $500 10.40; cows
and heifers, $5.30@11.4O; calves, $3.50
Sheep-Wethe $s.S5Q1S.2O; ewes
SS.40@12.OO; lambs, 3.25@17.10.
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HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
(F. o. B. Denver. Carload Price.)

(F. o. B. Denver. Carload Price.)
Hay.
Buying Prices-per Ton.
Colo. upland, per ton .2200Q 2400
Nebr. upland. per ton .2OOO022.00
Prairie hay (new crop),
Colo. and Nebr., per ton. 20. 90 22OO
Timothy, per ton 25.OO@26.00
Alfalfa new crop) per ton 2OOOQ22.00
South Park. per ton .25.OO026.00
Gunnison Valley. per ton. $4,000 $500
Straw, per ton ....... 5000 100
Grain.
Oats. Nebr.. 100 his buving
Colo. oats, bulk, buying. ..S.a2
Corn chop, sack, selling. .S'aS
Corn in sack, selling. .S'z1
Bran, Colo, per 100 lbs, selling. Inv
Flour.
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Live Poultry.
Eggs.

Eggs, graded No. l net, F.
o. B. Denver. .52
Eggs. graded No. net, f.
0. B. Denver. ............. 80
Eggs, case count misc.
cases. less commission. .13.uo@14.0o
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New York Cotton Prices.

New -Cotton-January, 31.4O;
March, 5000; May, 3O.65; July, 30.35
October, 1850
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Prices for Metals.

Prices for Metals.
Bar silver, $3.50.
Copper, $2317H.
Lead, $6.377e q 6.62h.
Spelter, $7.52A.
Tungsten concentrates, per unit
$4,000.
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, $20.00Q22.50 per unit. Crude
ores, 60 per cent, $20O0@25.00; rs per
cent, $12.O0Q12.50; 10 per cent, $9.4OQ
1920 per unit.
Grain and Flour Prices at Minneapolis.
Minneap polls, MINI. - Flour - Stand
ard, in carload lots, quoted at 1915 in
9S-pound cotton sacks.
Barley-$1.27@1.57
$1.86@1.87.
Bran-$32.50.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, $1.7O01.75.
Oats-No. 3 white, 79QS0c.
Flax-$3.62Q @ 1855.
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices.
Chicago.-Corn-Nos. 2 and yellow,
nominal; No. 4 yellow, $1.70@1.77h.
Oats-No. 8 white, S0%@81Nc;
standard, S1A @81Ac.
Rye-No 2, $1.84.
Barley-$1.40@1.59
Timothy-$5.00Q7
Clover-$20.0 $500.
Pork-Nominal.
Lard-$23.70.
Ribs-$2325Q Q2S75.
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L A 7 6
MAR K ET
a - Ma -
0UOTATIO N s

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DENVER MARKETS.
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Knowing that they have plenty
Of money to raise twins properly
why should Rose resent the fact
that she has been presented with
two babies instead of one?
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Butter.

Creameries, ex. 1st grd., lb. 40 050
Creameries, End grade, lb... A
Process .....'4I W41
Packing stock (net) ........30 QSl
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Fruit.

Apples, Colo, new fancy, box. LOO QI.75
Pears, colo. ................. l.I5 ~ z.UV
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Calf and Kip, Green SaIted
Green Sailed Pelts.
Dry Flint Pelts

Wool pelts .................. 38 Q4O
Short wool pelts. .36Q38
Butcher shearlings, No. 1 ...... "a
No. 2 murian Shearlings ........ 10
Bucks. saddles and pieces at value.
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Price of Sugar.

New York. - Sugar - Centrifugal
zoos: fine granulRted. $8.15@S.35.
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DRESSED POULTRY.

Less 10 per cent commission.
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ITO BE CONTINUEDl
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