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EMBODIED THE GERMAN IDEA
Mother of the Great Napoleon Might We'll Be Described as Typical
 Teuton "Hausfrau."

Probably the only marble bust Of Napoleon's mother was one of the ob- jects that the Potsdam palace counted its most interesting relic. For beside the bust the visitor came upon small library every title of which relates to the Bonaparte family. This collection is vaguely accounted for as the fruit of Butchers capture of the emperor's personal luggage, beside the seizure Of most of the Bonaparte family when the empire fell in 1914. Prussian agents in Paris during the various revolution ary outbreaks are credited with "as- sembling" anything identified with Bonaparte or his family. One volume, the alleged Memoirs of Madame Mere," (the mother of Bonaparte) was specially cherished by the Hohen- zOllerns, for old Kaiser Wilhelm caused the chapters to be read to him when too i'll to share the soldier drills and army maneuvers. The kaiser's in- terest in the Madame Mere reminis- cences was that Laetitia RamOnini, as pictured by herself, was an exact type of the Teuton 'hausfrau." It was q never-ending embarrassment to the children of Madame Mere that the old lady couldn't be induced to assume an imperial state; that she remained to the last the sagacious, economical housewife, upon whom rested the re- sponsibility of bringing up brood of eight.
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SUGAR GROWN UNDER PAPER
Now Method Introduced Into the Ha. Waiian Islands Said to Have Prov
 cd Highly Successful.

A new and very odd method of grow. ing sugar cane Is proving highly sue cessful in the Hawaiian islands. When the cane Is beginning to sprout, yard wide strips of a heavy kind of paper are laid lengthwise over the rows of little plants and held in place with canefeld trash. The paper Is strong enough to keep down and smother the starting weeds, but not to kill the stout and hardy young cane. In five or six weeks the weed seeds beneath the paper have all germinated and been smothered to death, but the cane shoots have either forced their way through or erected themselves suffi- ciently to make little tent-like eleva- tions. Laborers then pass along the rows and with long knives make slits in the sheets, permitting the shoots to come through. The liberated shoots at first are blanched white, but quickly turn green and lusty. Needing there after is almost wholly needless, be- cause there are very few weeds. There is an Increase of ten tons (about 2S per cent) in the yield of cane per acre, the Baltimore Sun says. Half the labor is saved and the production of actual su- gar per acre is augmented by more than a ton. The paper used is made out of "bagasse," which is the residue of the cane after the sugary sap has been squeezed out of 1t.
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BEGIN TO RENEW FORESTS
England and Scotland Have Already Started te Replace Trees Cut Down During the War.

England and Scotland are preparing to replant forests which have been cut to provide war supplies. They are not waiting until peace is concluded, but are doing 1t now. Never before have those countries been so bare of timber. Hunting ranges and sporting grounds have been sacrificed to supply muni- ton factories at home and armies abroad. The old forests were pri- marily ornamental and incidentally useful, but those which are now be- ing provided for will be primarily use full and incidentally ornamental, says Robert Fl. Moulton in Popular Mechan- ics Magazine.
 In the United States we are not In so much need of tree planting as they are In the British isles. But there are two kinds of timber which the war demand has greatly depleted, and they gre kinds of much importance locust and black walnut.
 There is another point to be consid' cred in the planting of these trees They can be grown on sandy tracts or land which are now considered of no value, and thus reclaim the land.
 An excellent illustration of what can be accomplished in the way of reclaim ing useless land through the planting of trees has been carried out during the last six or eight years by a res ident of Whiteside county, Illinois. In these years he has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of turning some 70 acres of sand. formerly as bar ren as the desert of Sahara, into fiourishing forest. Nor is that all for this forest, acting as sand bind CT, has been the means of saving other fertile acres from the inroads of the drifting sand, and the total result be- ing that the farm has increased sev' eral times in value. The sandy tracts which, before being planted to trees were practically worthless, are now worth anywhere from $50 to $1OO an acre.
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EARTH'S RICHEST RUBY MINES
Center of Worlds Store of Precious Stones Is Known to Be Located
 in Upper Burma.

The worlds ruby center Is MOgok, In upper Burma, some 70 miles north or Mandalay. Here are the great ruby mines, one of Burma's most valuable monopolies, says the London Weekly Telegraph. Indeed, not only does this country produce the finest of these coveted gems, but they are recovered in such quantities as to enable her to dominate the market.
 Few are aware that, weight for weight, ruby Is more valuable than diamond. It Is estimated that one the color of pigeons blood. weighing five carats, will sell for ten times the value of a diamond of the same weight. Fur thermore, the price increases with the size of the stone.
 AS the "byon," or earth containing the coveted gems, is taken from the ground 1t is placed in great revolving tub. Here 1t is screened and all loose earth removed by water. The residue Is then tipped on the sorting table. A white overseer carefully examines the pile, selecting the true gems from the worthless debris. If he's lucky he may at one sorting find gems worth many thousands of dollars. while on the oth CT hand the yieh may be but a hun dred dollars or two. The yearly out put of rubies from these mines totals about $4G0,OOO.
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ron down the path and She Knew that ha uonld return with Greenbrier at his heels.
 "Hurry, hurry, Sid" she implored.
 q ain't ever run from man yet. When begin it won't be Greenbrier m go when you go along.
 The reaction was sudden. Sally ,ooked at the wreck of her cherished rocker and her hand for an instant clutched her throbbing throat. In that instant a picture passed before her mental vision. In it were the Hickman men. hard, masterful, hating nice things" and the Hickman women, brow beaten, coarse and untldy, ana never in her life before had the thought of snuff stick in the corner of the mouth of a woman so nauseated her.
 twill you, Sally?' She looked Tor full long minute into the tender, cniVal- rous brown eyes of Sid.
 "It'u mean the parson this afternoon. Have YOU the price on you! she asked crisply. eyes. and for another rocker-and one of these days, Sally, I'll take you over the mountain and we'll hev front yard that ain't set upon edge agln the mountain, but layin' stretched out ana level and green with flowers ln II. Won't you cOme?'
 It was not what she had dreamed- a wedding dress made special in town a real nice dance and no liquor but a real tony lap supper and the parson and everything just as regular as 1T she was over the mountain already-but one more glance at the rocker decided her.
 Its a go, Sid, but we've got to ride for it." =
 Sid brought his horse up to the pOrch while Sally got into her wraps then she sprang on behind him. Anc ! though Bud did return with reinforce 1 ments and the mountain air was burn ed to a blue crisp, the McSpad had good steed and the elOpers good start And Sally In another rocker sltS contentedly on her little stoop an' watches the train go by, knowing tha soon it is to take her and hers ovel the mountain. But in the meantime old man Winters has forgiven then and the families of Greenbrier an' McSpadden visit each other wlthou let or hindrance.
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Aviators' Ailments.

Rarefied air affects the aviator as we'll as his engine, and those who plan to make flying a regular vocation or to make frequent flights to a consider able height are liable to find difficult ties in adjusting themselves to the new conditions. Etienne and Lamy re- ported to the French Academy of Med icine that enlargement of the heart develops in all aviators. In ascending to an altitude where the atmospheric pressure is half that normal to the body or less, extra work is suddenly thrown upon the heart, and if this is repeated often or long continued some adjustment Is the natural course. The hypertrophy seems to vary In degree with the height frequented. Chasing aud bombing airplanes usually fly above 15,OOO feet. and the heart en- largement induced is greater than among the groups of fliers who keep in the zone from 5000 to 10000 feet above sea level.
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VAST INFLUENCE IN NATION
Newspaper Is Easily the Most Power ful Factor In the llfe of a
 Free People.

In the history of our country, prob- ably no single factor has exerted so vast an influence over our social, po- litical and economic development as the newspaper. It is the molder or public opinion, the powerful force thar shapes the life of the nation.
 Journalism is an art that may be considered as old as printing itself. Before the era of newspapers, printed information in regard to current hap penings of public interest was distrlb- uted by means of newS-letters and circulars, which were printed Tn Venice, Cologne, Leipzig, Paris and other cities
 The first printed newspaper un' doubtedly appeared during the if teenth century, but there is no au thentic record as to it's name or place of publication. Different authorities claim priority for papers published re- spectively in Venice, London and Nuremburg.
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THE PRESS.
LEWIS MCLAUGHLIN. PUBLISHER
THURSDAY, AUGUST IA. 1919.

sl.5O year in advance. When not paid 1n advance, at the rate of $1.75 year.
 Resolutions, obituaries or cards of thanks in serted at one-half advertising rates Births, marriages and deaths inserted free.
 We are not responsible for nor do we by pub- fishing, endorse the opinions of our correspond ents.
 Communications received without signatures always committed to the waste basket without attention.
 Advertisers desiring change should have copy at office by Wednesday at 10 a. m otherwise we cannot guarantee change.
 This paper is mailed regularly to It's subscrib- CTS until definite order to discontinue is re- ceived and all arrears are paid in full.
 We are always glad to have netos items sent in, but request that they reach us by Wednesday morning, or earlier If possible. It Is often nec- essary to sbridge items that are received after Wednesday noon. Forms closed Thursday at 6
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HoLYOKE HAS LOST HONOR
Town Officially Declared Not to Have Been the Birthplace of Junius
 Spencer Morgan.

Holyoke, Mass, which has long claimed the honor of being the birth place of Junius Spencer Morgan, grand father of the present J. F. Morgan, has been shorn of this fame by the town of West Springfield. This decision has been rendered by the Connecticut Val ley Historical society.
 The explanation lies in the fact that the present city of HOlyoke was for merly a part of the town of West Springfield and that, contrary to Holy oke's contention, and the assumption of the Morgan family, the site of the ancestral home of Junius Spencer Nor gan Is still included within the boun- daries of West Springfield, though by u narrow margin.
 The present J. P. Morgan received an opportunity to perpetuate family his- tory in West Springfield through the in- strumentality of any public gift which appealed to his fancy. Though MT. Morgan was unresponsive, the contest between HOlyoke and West Springfield for birthplace honors progressed mer' rily and was settled only recently.
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he could come to = her the next sfn- day. Bud on 1rslN ought decided not to take her home, but he knew that Sally's company never had gone beg ging-he would wait and catch Sid in Greenbrier and thrash him within an inch of his life!
 Sid had tied his horse to sapling in front of the shack of box house that squatted on It's launches against the mOuntainside, and was sitting on bench on the porch, while Sally sat near him in a -splinter-new rock ing chair, shiny, with brilliant varntsh and moving rhythmically to the cOnver- Sation.
 The rocking chair was the last word in the community on leisure; in 1t the woman of the box house could sit on her narrow porch and watch the rail- road trains go laundering around the mountain, the sole and only daily ,di- version, the only visible tie to the wOn- derful world outside.
 Sally held in her hand magazine and some old fashion sheets that she
 
 and she was animatedly telling Sid what she had read when Bud sauntered up the path. Her face crimsOned with anger but she would not begin the quarrel.
 "Why, hello, Bud '" she called, trying to make her tone casual. Then, after a side whisper: "'Scuse me, Sid" she @l c,1tr fO- matic inside her dress and returned with another chair before Bud reached | the steps.
 II Tow I ain't much time to set. Ive just a little business with this 'ere l McSpad-I gotta slap his face" de 1 clared Bud as a preliminary to battle Sid jumped to his feet to put the l rocker between them, but he was not l quick enough to escape a right-hander l and Buds knucks cut his cheek. He l merely said in slow, even tones: "l l ain't armed. Towards and low-dOwn ornery thugs uses brass knucks." l Bud grabbed the rocker to fling il | out of his way when Sally screamed l for him to put it down. Instead, he l lifted it high above his head and sent
 1t crashing off the porch down the mountainside, a wreck.
 l But, unfortunately for him, while wreaking vengeance on this piece o1 ! feminine refinement, he disarmed him
 self, for Sally saw the shape of the re
 volver in his coat pocket, and while his arms were extended she had quick
 es lightning removed the gun, and Sid backed inside the door and barricaded it after him, as she motioned him to 1 do.
 l Well, you-you-tiger cat" grinned
 Bud in spite of himself as he faced his
 own gun and Sally's angry eyes that l gleamed as steel blue as the barrel of
 it. "When did hit come fum?" point.
 ing to the wrecked rocker.
 ''It was mine" panted Sally, the dry
 sObs splitting her throat. "I earned
 the money myself showing strangers
 where the mountain Orked- flowers
 grow. It was for my own house."
 "Now, I don't low any woman o1
 mine is goin' to set dawdlin' in rock.
 in cheer, watchin' the trains go by
 she'll hey sumpin' else to do"
 GO and tell her so, Bud Hickman
 It'll not be me. Git" And Sally lev
 eled the gun at him.
 "Oh, us Hickmans has tanned tiger.
 cats afore your time, Sally darlin', an
 your dads on my side" And Bud
 started toward Sid's horse, but Sally's
 gun shipped off twig at his side. She
 chuckled at his jump and profane ex
 plosion. Bud had taught her how tc shoot. With shake of his feet Bud
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But There Was a Difference.

Here is a story concerning Sir Ar thur Pinero.
 It appears that he was on the point of rehearsing new play, the rehear- sal being timed to begin at eleven o'clock.
 Looking around at the assembled company. he noticed that one lady was absent.
 "Where Is Miss Blank" asked Sir Arthur sharply of his stage manager.
 "She has permission to come at II :3O," was the reply, "as she Is wash ing her head"
 Nonsense" growled Sir Arthur. in pretended anger. as he took off his hat. displs ying his bald head. Why. I wash my head every morning, yet I'm never late for rehearsal"
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Sally, the Coker' s Daughter
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure News
 paper Syndicate.)
By BARBARA KERR

Coke ovens, like mines, usually claim both parents and their children. Now and then one breaks away-One with
 vision, who refuses to live and die coker. Sally, daughter of Old Man Winters, the oldest coker of Greenbrier, WIS born not only with vision Of what 1t would be like to live in the outside world, but from some forgotten ances- tress she had inherited beauty of face and figure and a genius for being diff
 ferent, living above her surroundings and picking up. "the Lord only knows
 whah fum," as her mother would have
 told you in her lazy, musical draWl,
 little bits of civilization, crumbs of cul-
 ture, which she wore and reveled In as
 though they were jewels.
 The Greenbrier coke ovens were in a
 bend of the New river and four miles
 below, on the opposite side, were the
 McSpadden ovens. Between the two there had long been feud; boys were not allowed to call on girls of the rival camp. But love laughs at feuds, as 1t does at the smith who ought to keep 1t | under lock and key. Sid Runey, of Me Spadden, was in love with Sally Win
 ters, though he knew that she was en- gagged to Bud Hickman, of Greenbrier. Sid, in shy burst of confidence, had admitted to Sally that he also had the vision. Sickness in his fathers family had kept him tied down, but some day | he was going to live in Salfy's world of books, papers and pictures. Since then | there was a growing bond of interest | between them.
 They met at a dance in mountain l schoolhouse, and Sid, regardless of Buds dark looks had sought out Sally l again and again.
 Finally, to punish Bud for his low | down manners. Sally openly told Sid
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Flu Stays Poor Mexicans.

Ravages of Spanish influenza among the poor charcoal burners who live in the mountains surrounding the Mexi- can capital are said to be responsible for the unprecedented price which that commodity is bringing. In the last month charcoal, which Is gener- ally used for cooking purposes. has increased about 300 per cent in cost. The municipality has made arrange ments to buy this product in quanti- ties and retai! 1t at reduced figures. One paper in the capital states that almost 90 per cent of the Indians who supplied the City of Mexico with the fuel were victims of the scourge.
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interesting Text Books.

A school in Italy uses stamp albums to teach geography and history. Each student has his own collection, while the school owns a larger and more complete one. The boys and girls are a great deal more devoted to thelr studies with such novel text books 10 attract and interest them than they would be with just common pink ana blue maps.
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Cash Paid for Farms

Wanted at once, for cash, , or more farms and village homes. Must be good value for price asked. If you wish to sell, write me, giving price, full description and exact location, and when property can be seen. l pay all expenses of deeds and trans fer. Box 12, Willimantic, Conn.
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Good Opinion of Himself.

At the station the other day naval officer on leave was met by his wife and small son. After greeting his wife the father lifted up the boy and kissed him several times and said, "Oh, you don't know how glad papa is to see you" The boy answered, "Youll be gladder when you get ac- Quainted with me-"
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Laborers Wanted

Fred T, Ley X Co. want laborers in stafford Springs on Cyril Johnson job, J0c per hour Long job.
 Apply r. w. BENSON, Supt
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whipplnu Wronu Horse.

A foreigner on visit to England is at loss to understand why lh the houses of parliament each party has whip for its own party when u wants to beat the other party.
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MvStifylnu "Ade"

A city advertisement was headed: 1.-Two sisters want washing. So uo a good many brothers. Another ad- yertisement was: "Wanted-a boy to sandpaper."
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Cottage House For Sale

GRANT ANENuE-Best Residential sectioh splendid opportunity to procure good home, Liberal Terms MRS. II, l.. SULLIVAN, bs Huntington Street, New London, Conn,
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optlmlstic Thought.

He is the noblest who has raised himself by his own merit to higher afntfOQ.
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FOR SALE CHEAP.-A two seated Canopy Top Carriage, nearly new.
 l7tf FRED MOORE, MaShapaug.
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NOTICE.

All persons having bills against the town or stafford should present them on or before Aug, s1st, as the fiscal year closes on that date.
 Per O. der of SeleGLmen.
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TOR SALE Motor Boat at Crystal I ake, IS foot Michigan steel, 3 H. F., fine condition. F. c. SANFORD.
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EOR SALE-Good Cow, five years old I Just calved Apply to P. o. Box $50
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WANrED-A secondhand Silo. For w sale-Patr team horses. g and 12 years old Good, sound horses. JACOB WITS,
 s3w17 StafYOrdyille
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HARD and Soft Wood Slabs for sale 1t l. | reasonable prices. AUGUST SCUSSEL,
 13tf k F. D. 5.
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A UTOS FOR SALE-One 1918 7-pas- "A senger Studebaker, one overland Touring, model 9O in firSt-class condition. Will trade for Ford runabout. PAUL GENHOLT,
 Phone 37.23. OrcuttS. 16tf
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EOR SALE.-Belgian flares. Pedi I' gree and utility stock All ages. F. J BUTTERFIELD, Stafford Springs. l6tf
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EOR SALE-Jersey Cow.
 3w. c. N. IRONS, Orcuttvile.
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EOR SALE-A young horse, two car
 C riages, farm wagon, driving harness work harness. at a good bargain Inquire at The Press Office. 17tf
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L'OR SALE-Pigs 6 weeks old.
 + +3wl7 GEORGE TOMON, k. D.
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TOR SALE-Three Houses
 U J. Allen Mix
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CTRAYED FROM PREMISES A ter O sey heifer, iH years old. Any one giving in- formation as to It's whereabouts will be paid for their trouble. STEV DEZSO,
 #5W17 Knob Hill Farm.
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w 20 JOHNSON HOSPITAL. YOUNG MAN Wanted for clerk a | Eaton Drug Co.
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DELGIAN HARES for Sale at the ID Nelson ToMne place.
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WANTED-Woman to wash; ,a.
 w 20 JOHNSON HOSPITAL. YOUNG MAN Wanted for clerk at l Eaton Drug Co.
 FOR sALE-Three Houses m w EOR SALE-Good Cow, five years old. II Just calved Apply to F. o. Box $50 FOR sALE-Jersey Cow: ..,, T. 3w' C.. IRONS, Orcuttville. DELGIAN HARES for Sale at the ID Nelson Towne place.
 r OOK-For Sale cheap. Home with l lI3 tenements. Near mills, Churches schools Easy terms. See S. KUSLANSKl SON. EOR SALE-New Milch Cow, 3 years some ei1 Wniee neSI Ieghorn Pues rom srorrs Col lege stock. HENRY DEPEAU, Stafford ' OST-A large white cat with few II yellow spots. yellow eyes; double & front 1t | JENNIE CHURCH, Wilmington Hill.
 PASS are biting. Let's go. Boats to Mashapaug.
 FOR SALE-l9l6 Harley Davidson l Motorcycle, three speeds, electric lights, with 1918 side car in good condition. T II, SMITH, Stafford Springs. Box 3S6 '4wls II mile from town. Eighty acres, good Wood, | horse, 3 COWS, pigs, chickens good barn Crops all planted. Ow ner will divide one-half of crop. Must vacaIe at once: | 1Stf P.J. MURRAY & SON, Tel 2S-2. EOR ALE-Two registered well mark GREEN & SON, South W iliingIon. Conn awi7 rINO RENT for the Summer-My cottage at Crystal Lake, Inquire GHs Of Mrs B,y9Tp Boyer CTRAYED FROM PREMISES A Jer- | D sey heifer, lH years old. Any one giving in- to 'S | *5w17 Knob Hill Farm. WANTED-A secondhand Silo. For
 w sale-Pair team horses. and 12 years old
 '3w17 Stafrordvlle. EOR SALE CHEAP.-A wo-seated Canopy Top GarTiage Th g9nns nesTly ,E.n.nr new
 L'OR SALE-Pigs 6 weeks old.
 L +3wl7 GEORGE TOMON, K. D. EOR SALE-A young horse, two car
 y riages, farm wagon, driving harness, worl harness. at good bargain Inquire at Th Press Office. Tt
 A UTOS FOR SALE-One 1918 7-pas | "A senger Studebaker, one Overland Touring model 90. in f1rst-class condition. Will trad for Ford runabout. PAUL GENHOLT, Phone 37-23. Orcutts. 16t EOR SALE.-Belgan flares. Pedi
 y gree and utility stock All ages. F. J BUTTERFIELD, Stafford Springs. 16tf IFOR SALE - Motor Boat at Crysta T ake, IS foot, Michigan steel H. F., fin condition. F. c. SANFORD.
 HARD and Soft Wood Slabs for sale 8 II reasonable prices. AUGUST sCUSSEL, | 13tf k F. D. 8. L>LUFF RUGS made to order from
 r your old carpets. Write for particulars c. SCHULZE 5 Chamberlain-st., Rockville, Ct DICYCLES-C Columbia, Pope, Flyins ID Merkel rebuilt wheels and supplies.
 BURT s. CHAFFEE, Stafford Springs, R. D. l
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T OOk-For Sale cheap. Home with
 ! /3 tenements. Near mills, Churches. schools
 Easy terms See $. KUSLANSKY & SON.