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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23
HELEN TAFT, COLLEGE PRESIDENT

There's thunder for femInISts in
the career of Miss Helen Taft, only
daughter of a former president, Will
liam Howard Taft. In 1917 Miss Taft
was made dean of Bryn Mawr college.
from which she had graduated only
two years before. And the other day
a dispatch announced that she had
been elected president Of the school to
serve during the years leave of alb
sence granted DR.. M. Carey Thomas.
1t wasn't long ago that Miss Taft
made her social debut in the White
House. Then a student at Bryn Mawr,
she gave up her studies after her
sophomore year and went TO Wash
fngton where the weight of the social
responsibilities of the White House
fell upon her shoulders, as her mother
was iii most OF the time.
Her success as hostess and So
ciety leader was acclaimed by the
diplomatic circle in which she ruled.
Popular with the women of Washing
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23
He IS INSURED FOR 81, 100000

The most heavily insured man In
the United States is Rodman Wanna
maker of New York and Philadelphia,
Of whom a portrait Is given herewith.
Mr.. Wanamaker's policies aggregate
S4,5OoOO0.
Pierre Dupont Of powder trust
fame follows with $4.000,O00. Next is
John Wanamaker, Sr., founder of de-
partment- stores, with policies aggre-
eating $3.000-O00,
]. Pierpont Morgan carries poll
cies totaling $2.500.000. In the s., 2,000,-
600 class are Julius Rosenwald of Chi
cago and Percy Rockefeller. Henry
Francis Dupont carries $1.250,O00.
There are approximately II others
In the United States whose insurance
equals or exceeds $1.00O,000.
Policies of $500,0O0 are common.
There is scarcely d successful bust
ness man of the weli-to-do class who
does not carry upward of 100000.
The list OF heavy insurers, how
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23

Arcadia-An oil well is in prospect
here. Mcclure Well No. / in Area
dia's limits is being prepared for
drilling at an early day, the derrick
having been erected and the piping
placed in position.
Placequemine oil development In
the IberviIle-St Martin field has TAX
en- an increase and a determined er-
fort VIII be made during the present
year to iecate oil in paying quanti-
ties, 1t being the opinion Of many
men that there Is oil in this section.
Baton RcHge-Governor Pleasant
has appointed DR.. George S. Bel Of
New Orleans, DR.. George Kreeger OF
Lake Charles and Or. M. 8. Picard
of Shreveport as members Of the
State Tuberculosis Commission
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23

The Warfield plan for railroad con-
troll. with provision for a flat return
of s per cent on capital invested, was
presented Friday to the house inter
state commerce committee by Luther
NJ. Walter, general counsel of the
National Association of Owners of
Railroad Sureties.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23

Joaquin Tinoco, brother Of the Pres
ident of Costa Rica, was assassinated
August 10. according to reports.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23

Harry w Nice, prosecuting attorney
of Baltimore, Nd, was elected i'm.
perial prince of the dramatic order
Knights of Khorassan Wednesday
at the fourteenth biennial session OF
the imperial palace at Peoria, III.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23

Carl Hauselmann. Wilhelm Ainrecht.
John Sibel and Walter Spicer, ri
Germans, and Heinrich Kolbrecht, an
Austrian. who have been InterDed
during the war at Camp Douglas, Salt
Lake City, Utah. were brought to
Laredo, Texas. under guard Tuesday.
Here the party was joined by Mrs.
Albrecht and three children. The
prisoners were taken to the boundary
monument and instructed to proceed
on their way to their destinations In
Mexico
Harry w Nice, prosecuting attorney
of Baltimore, Md, was elected i'm
perial prince of the dramatic order
knights of Khorassan Wednesday
at the fourteenth biennial session OF
the imperial palace at Peoria, Ill.
One hundred and sixty miles Of mo-
! tion picture negatives and more than
| $4,000 still pictures of army activities
were produced during the war, Secre-
tary Baker informed congress Wednes-
day, in asking legislation authorizing
the war department to selLassssszssssf asssss7 80 -
of the negatives sre, >
use
F. c. Weinert, state superintends sectI
of weights and measures, Wednest SoI
issued a call to the bakers of TexAs =
| to send representatives to a meeting
called by him at Austin for Saturday,
August %. to discuss the standardizing
of the weight of bread.
Alabama's cotton crop for 1919 win
be at least 100000 bales short of last
years production, due to the inroads
of the boil weevil, according to Com
missioner of Agriculture M. c. ALI
good.
Miss Annie Webb Blanton, state su.
issued an appeal to school trustees,
county and town superintendents, fed
Grated clubs and parent-teacher asso-
Citations of Texas, asking that the
opening of the public schools be de-
ferred so the children may be used
to gather the bumper crops during
the acute labor shortage.
Governor Hobby Monday disposed of
the last bill of the recent special
session of the Texas legislature by
approving the departmental appropria-
ton measure with three exceptions,
thereby vetoing 31,50O. 1t was the
last day the governor had to act on
the bill. The governor blue penciled
s11, 500 for repairing and painting the
capitol dome, and $4,000 each year
for travelling expenses for the live
stock sanitary commission.
At its session Monday at Austin,
Texas, the state board of education
appropriated the full 15c for the state
school tax for the purchase and distri-
button of the free text books. The
books are being placed In the graded
schools and the high schools and Miss
Blanton, state superintendent, said
that a little more than the 15c may
be needed this year, while part of it
will elapse next year and be used for
the support of the schools.
General William E. Mickle, chief of
staff, United Confederate Veterans.
has announced that the next confeder-
ate reunion will be held at Atlanta,
Ga, Oct. 7, and 10. The annual
meeting of the Confederate Southern
Memorial Association and the Sons of
Confederate Veterans will be held in
Atlanta on the same dates, General
Mickle announced.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23

New Orleans. - Tho Louisiana an
nual conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. which will
convene sometime in December, will
be held at Ruston instead of Oakdale,
La BY unanimous vote at the last
session of the conference, Oakdale
was selected but the invitation of tho
Methodists of Oakdale was based up
contemplated would be completed.
Lately 1t was learned that the new
ediflce would not be finished until
next year.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

Roumania in nowise fayors the in
stallation of Archduke Joseph In
power in Hungary, according to
declaration to the Temps by Victor
Antonesco, Roumanian minister at
Paris.
The Hungarian public prosecutor
has announced that proceedings will
be begun against all individuals charg-
ed with crimes during the Bella Kun
dictatorship and that steps have al
ready been taken for their arrest and
extradition.
The German government has reject
ed the demand of the allies for the
recall Of General Won der Goltz, COM
mander in chief of the German forces
in the Baltic provinces.
Joaquin Tinoco, brother Of the Pres
ident of Costa Rica, was assassinated
August 10. according to reports.
The city of Vinnitza, in the Ukraine,
125 miles southwest of Kiev, has been
abandoned by the bolsheviki, accord
ing to wireless message from Mos
COW. In Volhynia anti-bolshevik forces
have occupied the railway center of
Lutski, southeast of Kovel
The coal miners of Yorkshire, Eng
land, where more than 100000 men
have been on strike since July 81,
decided this week to resume work
Unconfirmed reports from reliable
sources in Chihuahua City, Mexico,
brought to the Texas border this week,
stated 40 persons had been executed
as a result of the discovery of the
mutiny plot In the federal garrison
last week First reports stated Is had
been ordered executed.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21
WEST DANVILLE.

Mrs. Flora Aldrich and son James
who recently came home from ovel
seas and Irving Folsom are spending
few days at their cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton harrington
and Mrs. Ed Badger spent Friday
at Passumpsic.
DIR. Watt and family of Danville
are occupying their cottage here fol
the summer.
Mrs. William Brickett of st. Johns
bury has been spending several weeks
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Brickett.
Miss Emily Armstrong has return
cd from Peacham.
Will Barry was home from Mont
pelier over Sunday.
Miss Anna Brickett and Bert Allen
were at John Brickett's Saturday.
Miss Ida Page of West Newbury
Mass, and Mrs. Orpha Gowen oil
Newburyport and Mrs. Alsona Page
and children of Danville were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Far.
rington last week.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21
WELLS RIVER

Mrs. Fred Learned attended the
funeral of George Bickford in Quincy
N. H., Wednesday.
The Community Bird club met
Monday evening at the home of Mrs
Melvin Mann in Woodsvillc.
At the whist party held by the Re,
lief Corp last week, Is tables were in
play. Mrs. Clarence Byers was the
winner of the ladies' prize.
G. H. Kidder is moving his family
into the apartment formerly occupied
by Mrs. Josephine Clark.
Miss Frances Brown, trained
nurse is caring for James George
who is seriously ill at his home.
Miss Mary Taylor and George Tay-
lor of Brookline, Mass, are guests
of their brother, F. B. Taylor and
family.
George Merchant was in Bradford
Wednesday, to attend the funeral OF
his mother
Mrs. Josephine Clark has packed
her household goods, and with hel
son, Robert, is spending a few weeks
with Mrs. Carrie Warren.
Elmer Il. Seeley of Boston is q
week end guest of the Tavern.
Frank Learned, Charles Paige and
Herbert Waldron attended Crane
Lodge in Burlington last week. Miss
Lila Holmes attended the Rebekah
Assembly from Arbutus Lodge of this
place.
Miss Barry has been absent from
her school duties all the week, ow-
ing to an attack of appendicitis.
Judge Baldwin, r. E. Farwell, DR.
John Thomas, Harry Stratton OF
Boston, Porter Farwell and Harry
Dunbar of Turner's Falls, Mass, and
Supt. L. d. Smith have been on q
fishing trip at Caspian Lake, Greens,
boro, several days.
The local high school team defeat
ed the McIndoes Academy base ball
team, Wednesday.
Mrs. Lizzie Warden is with hel
daughter, Mrs. Albert Gibson helping
care for her little grandson, who has
been critically ill.
Miss Janet Varnum of Peacham
visited Miss Ruth Randall last week
II. Crabtree and family were Wis
itors in st. Johnsbury, Friday.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21

the returning soldier boys ut Weeks
Hall, North Danville, Friday night.
james Il. Campbell spent Sunday
in Rutland
William AStle is in Glen Falls and
llagcrstoWn, Md, on business.
Hoel Human has purchased new
Ford car.
Ovla Bilodoau of Concord spent
Sunday at his home here.
DR.. Provost has purchased new
Packard car.
ID. G. Shores of East st. Johnsbury
was here on business Monday.
Alphonso White has bought a new
Chevrolet car.
Raymond Flint is working at the
Fish hatchery.
Attorney David Porter was a legal
visitor in Lyndonville, Monday.
Word has been received that How
ard Fisk had landed in New York.
Mrs. Henry Somers of Newport is
visiting at Mrs. &. p. Mctcalf's.
|. G. Marshall returned Saturday
from an auto trip TO Brattleboro.
The North End Furniture Store
has bought the George Hallctt and
George Dane household goods. MI
Hallctt goes to Pennsylvania and
Mr.. Dane to White River Junction
Mrs. Jack Kaczer has returned
from Boston and is at her work at
the Boston and Maine office. Mr.
Kaczcr arrived the last of the week
Mrs. Charles Anderson of NORTH
Danville was here Sunday to visit
Mr.. Anderson, who is recovering al
Brghtlook Hospital.
Lillian V. Petty has finished work
at the Star Restaurant and is spend
ing two weeks with her little boys II
Burke.
Mrs. Walter Houston and son, Pau
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfrcd Harvey were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. William Har
vey at Ccntervale for the week end.
The regular monthly meeting O.
Grace Unity Club will be held in thu
parlors of Grace Methodist church
Friday evening, at 1880 o'clock.
The City Mission cottage meeting
will be held at the home of Mr.. ant
Mrs. William Clark in Coreyville to
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. M. Massey lef
Saturday for Hyde Park to spen'
some time with their son and wife
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Massey.
"Mr. WelTenrath has few equal
among American singers. 1t is diff
cult to think Of any who can so skill
fully reproduccs the atmosphere o
foreign ongs."-BoSton Herald. A
the Col0nial-Adv.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21
DON'T LET 1T LINGER

A cough that follows la grippe or
any other cough that "hangs on"
from winter to spring wears down
the sufferer, leaving him or her in ..
weakened state unable to ward off
sickness and disease. Jos. Gillard.
148 Fillmore St.. Nashville. Tenn,
writes: 81 was suffering with dry
hacking cough and pain in my
chest. but since taking Foley's Honey
and Tar l have been relieved" It
soothes, heals and cures coughs, colds
and Group. Good for whooping
cough. SOLD EVERYWHERE.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21

"Mr. Werrenrath illustrated the fin
est ideals in the art of g."-Phila-
delphia Ledger. At the Colonial.
ADV.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21

The wooden kimona is off the
Court House lawn statute. We know
of several other things beside the
statute around this town that need
wooden kimona during the winter.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-05-21

Mary Ann says we ought to write
a "Dreary Path" about the hens
scratching up the grass seed in the,
front lawn. Mary Ann should worry.
She didn't sow the grass seed. Be-
sides its no matter to joke about.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18

Tarn,ir
 |anking | ||lshment. ||old and Keeping 1 kernininl Inc incoi Hons on |khould kI lust howl Ian know Ind the proper ii
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18

Columbia girl from out of town, cul- tured. we'll bred and fairly good look ing, wishes to make the acquaintance of several men in order to be intro duced at Columbia functions. She is entirely unconventional and is willing to meet the men half way by paying all expenses. Strictly confidential. Address R 36, Spectator"
 The students who publish Spectator, the New York World says, profess ig- norance of the identity of the young woman or whether the number 36 had any reference 70 the age or figure of the advertiser.
 Hundreds of masculine students are awaiting replies from her, the adver- tisement having been we'll answered.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18

jurymen, prosecuting attorneys, ball. ifs, criers and the like.
 At such trials the prisoners were wont to take on recent arrivals from England on all manner of mock charges, such as snoring too loudly, washing their faces with soap, and so on. If it was found that among the batch of newcomers, convicts just from the old country, there were sew eral who possessed money, court was immediately convened and the ones suspected of having funds were haled up on the charge of having red hair or wearing box-tOed shoes.
 The trial was held with mock gravi- ty and decorum, and in the end the prisoner would be found guilty and fined whatever amount he was known to have on his person for the Offense charged. The money thus obtained would be divided among the old, long term convicts, who would buy tobacco and other luxuries with it, while the victim of this form of extortion would have no recourse except to await the time when he himself got chance to preside as judge or sit on the jury at the trial of some new arrival.
 It was called kangaroo court because in those days the Botany Bay conyicts spoke of themselves as kangaroos, an animal very abundant, as everybody knows, in Australia.
 Tho institution aS well aS tho form travelled from Australia to England, whither 1t was brought by returning Botany Bay convicts, whose terms had expired. It had short life in Eng land, however, where it was speedily discovered by the jailers and turkeys and broken up; but it was not long afterward that it found it's way into the prisons of the United States, where it has remained ever since.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18
HELD IN MOCKERRYf
Kangaroo Courts" Instituted by
 Australian ConNicts.
Prisoners at Botany Bay Said to Have Invented Idea to Relieve the Mo notony of Their Existence
 Spread to United States.

Kangaroo court is an expression which, however strange it may be to the layman, is familiar to most United States marshals, post office inspectors and the police forces of large cities, remarks writer in the Detroit News. What it really stands for is explained by post office inspector who has had much experience with offenders and criminals.
 It appears that in a number of the larger prisons in this country the pris- oners, from time to time, are accus- toned to hold what they call kangaroo court, and that every notorious crim- inal in the United States is probably not only familiar with the term, but has no doubt presided often enough as judge or prosecuting attorney in this relation, or perhaps has been tried for some of the numerous mock charges that are preferred against those who have the misfortune to be haled before such tribunal.
 Such court is held only in the great prisons of the country, being entirely unknown in the country jails.
 The institution of kangaroo court seems to date back some 40 years in the United States.
 In the days when Australia was a penal colony the convicts at Botany Bay, by way of amusing themselves and relieving the monotony of prison life, used to organize a sort of mock court at which the shrewdest and oft en the worst criminals of the lot pre- sided as judge, while others acted as
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18
Mixed Relationship.

Here is double marriage at Salem, Ore, in which one bridegroom is both father-in-law and stepfather to the other, while the other becomes both son-in-law and stepson. The doors of the county clerks office were just closing when two men appeared and asked if it were possible to obtain marriage licenses at so late an hour.
 Upon being assured that a license could be issued, August Kluge, aged fifty-four, and carpenter by trade, produced the necessary physical cer- tificate and received license to mar " Mrs. c. K. Kayser, forty-five of this city.
 Mir. Kayser's mother is the prospec- tive bride of MT. Kluge, so the cou- ples probably will have no little trou- ble in trying to decide their relation ship to each other.-St. Louis Repub- lie.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18
First siaht of a Pia.

Along the hard, dry, wind-swept road in a suburb came a drove of pigs-a most unusual spectacle in London of recent years. From the by-streets the children of the poor came hurrying to see, and it was clear from their com ments that many of them had never seen a pig before.
 Look, Lizer!" cried one of the smallest among them. Look. there's a piebald one."
 Course there is, stoopid," said Lizer, who was clearly we'll versed in natural history. "Where else do yer think they get streaky bacon from ?"-Lon- don Chronicle.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18
unt.dy Streets.

The New York Merchants associa- ton has an antilitter bureau, that is now engaged in campaign against dirty streets. The cost of cleaning up the refuse that should have been dropped into the very convenient con tainers, but is just dropped in the street instead, is enormous. School children are reported as serious of lenders, for they bring paper from the schoolroom and tear and scatter 1t tlpon the streets. That isn't patriotic --not bit.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18
china's Industrial Future.

In 1918, regardless of the great world war and unsettled internal polit- icaI conditions, China's foreign trade increased, keeping the grand total well above the billion-dollar mark Observ- ing commercial investigators agree that, industrially, and as manufor- turing center, China has great fu- ture.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18
Girl Advertises for npates.v

An advertisement which, the adver- tising department of Columbia univer- sitys daily newspaper. Spectator, says is the legitimate appeal of young woman, appeared recently in the pub ljcation as follows:
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18

WANTED-Split slaves and stave bolts. Will also buy large and small timber tracts near the railroad. Write for specifications and prices. c. N. Autry, Prescott. 17H
 Hemstitching Machine now installed at my home. Work promptly and neatly done. Price 10c per yard. Mrs. W. R. White. IT,. phone No. 57. If
The Prescott daily news., 1919-12-18

We are expecting another advance on Valley Lumber Company lands after first of the year. Now is the time to get in on the present prices. Moore 6 Martin. 11-3-tf
 FOR SALE-Piano, buggy and har- nessfi cheap for cash. Paul Lambert, Prescott R. 4. 15d3
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-11-18
(TO BE CONTINUED
MEMBERS OF RED CROSS
MAY JOIN ANY TIME

SO far as known there were but. L.
200 members TO join the Red Cross IL
Annapolis at the Third Roll Call Tho
returns are still incomplete and there
may be others to increase this num-
Der
Because the drive ended On Armis-
tice Day, does not signify that those
who would like to enroll may not do
so even now. Anyone may become .
member Of the Red Cross at any time
by paying one dollar. or more If they
wish. and enrolling their name at the
Red Cross. Headquarters, above the
Annapolis Bank of the Eastern Shore
Trust Company, corner Of Church
Circle and Duke OF Gloucester street
For any. individual worker. Mrs,
Noble, wife OF Lieut. Noble, L. S. ~,
made the highest record for enrolling
new members-66.
So far as known the only 100 per
cent house in Annapolis is that OF
Miss Katherine Taylor, Prince George
street. where every member of he
household, which includes number
of young men, candidates for the
Naval Academy, enrolled in the Red
Cross, and even the colored maids
joined the membership and paid their
enrolment fee