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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
CUPID'S own DAY
Fourteenth Of February Belongs
to Him Alone.
Anniversary Brightens the Drab Month
With Memories of the Past and
Joy of the Present

Frightening the dull, drab month of
February and doing their very best
to cheer up and bring love into our
hearts, the valentines--the valentines
smile at us with their lace-and- forget
me-not daintiness from the shop win
| dows.
There are elaborate "inillionaire"
valentines of celluloid and blue ribbons
that come in big lace boxes, like
French dolls there are valentines that
when pulled out like an accordion be-
come Cinderella coaches of cardboard,
laden with Loves and Venuses and
Cupids. Others resolve themselves in
to airy pink-and-blue palaces-you
never know-peopled with delightful
goddesses and doves.
But the best and most sincere, per-
haps, are the old-fashiOned valentines
-yistas of foamy paper lace, through
which you look upon hearts redder
than lovers lips, in a prospect of VIC
lets and forget-me-nots. And hidden
away, like billet doux in bouquet,
little verse:
This heart, sweet love- send to YOU.
Together with these violets blue;
And If you like this heart of mine,
! pray you be my valentine.
Could anything be more simple or
direct to the point? AS unerringly as
Cupids darts or beau's rapier, the
verse carries its message home. 1t
may be that the Elizabethan lyrics,
the love songs of Herrick and Love-
lace and Sucking, survive today only
in the valentine.
And, alb, what memories these har-
bingers of love bring with them They
lead us back along the columbine-
bordered road to yesterday, over the
asphodel meadows of Youth and First
Love and Childhood Fancies, and we
meet and kiss .our first sweethearts
again-alas, they have gone out of |
our lives these many years.
And so, dear little Valentine, accept |
these violets and forget-me-nots, and |
hug this message close to your heart
for surely a sweetheart is the sweeter
for a valentine, and, as all wise men
know, it's love that makes the world
go round.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
JOHNSON

Rev. E. G. French recently spent few
days at home.
D. r. Chapman recently visited his
daughter in Enosburg.
The town auditors meet Thursday at
the town clerks office.
Miss Myrtle Start OF Bakersfield was a
recent guest of DR.. L. P. Holcomb.
Jesse Russell of Jacksonville has moved
to E. M. Woods farm, which he recently
bought of F. S. Heath.
Mrs. Charles Kneeland and Mrs. c. H.
Souther OF North Hyde Park, visited in
town Tuesday of last week.
Everett Lambert was brought home from
the Fanny Allen hospital Tuesday after
noon Of last week. He is convalescng.
Carroll M. Drown of West Midway.
Mass, and brother, Ha ry Drown of New
port were guests last Wednesday of their
aunt, Mrs. J. L. Pierce.
r. H. Royce D. d. G. M, made an
official visit to Mystic Lodge OF Stowe
Tuesday night OF last week, E. W.
Walker accompanied him.
The o. E S., No. 65 will be given a
box party at the Masonic Temple Thurs
day evening, Feb. 10. Following the
meeting of Waterman Lodge.
Mrs. Jessie Mulliken of Morrisville has
bought the Nye place on Railroad street,
occupied by Frank Miller. Mrs. Mulliken !
will move in as soon as the house is vacated.
A large number of men sat down TO an
excellent meat pie supper Thursday even
ing here in the Methodist church vestry,
in response to an invitation from the
mems class of the Sunday school, after
which a discussion was held on the sub
ject. lis Anything Wrong with the
church," 1t was agreed that the Church
needs met, also that the men need the
church, and a good number offered their
to the mems organization. The
class meets at 12m on Sunday in room
over Mr.. Riddles store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
OWED MUCH TO STEPMOTHER
Lincoln Was Always Ready to Admit
His Great Debt to the Patient,
Kindly Woman.

81 often think of the stepmother Of
Lincoln as an example of the deep and
quiet and far-reaChing power of a
woman, Il woman who thinks AID loves,
A commonplace woman, no dOnht, most
people thought her, and she probably
thought herself SO, too; woman GER
tainly, whose daily work was humble
enough to all appearances, a pioneer
woman meeting the many needs of the
rough and hard pioneer life-tliat was
all she seemed to he.
IF any one of you had seen her in
the little rough log cabin at the home
ly. never-ending household tasks while
the boy Lincoln lay stretched before
the fire reading one OF the few books
that that life and community afforded,
you would hardly have thought Of her
as a woman of influence. VT those
deft hands of hers that You 'hink of
mainly as washing dishes and cooking
food and doing other sundry Lomely
tasks, we're molding, helping to mold
all the while-no one knows just how
far that help went-a nations des-
TIMES. For the boy Lincoln was grow
ing up under her influence, was grow
ing up to be that man TO whom a
whole nation will always render low
ing homage. When he became great
man Lincoln loved to acknowledge that
It was the wise, just and far-reaching
his stepmother-thsp plain,
woman, remember-that
he owed most that was good and In
1uential in himself. "-Woman's Home
Iomnanion
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
Cambridge Junction
tDeferred)

Miss Bessie Spence is still quite ILL.,
Mrs. Bertha Corse has gone to Grove.
ton, N. H.
Mrs. Frank Machia was in Burlington
enc day last week.
Miss Alice Styles was at her home in
Waterville over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Bowen are at Ed.
Manchester's, for few weeks.
Mark Stevens was business visitor in
Georgia, on Tuesdag of this week.
Mrs. Fred Martin and children have
heen stopping at E. C. Robinson s, for a
few weeks.
Mr.. John Scanton has gone to st. Albans,
Mr.. Church takes his place on the Burling-
ton Freight.
Alterd Buker and Curtis Perry are
working in Morrisville, cutting ice for the
c. Brigham Co.
Mrs Alice Jordon has returned from
her visit to Virginia. Her son, Chester
Jordon and her grandfather, John South,
returned with her.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09

st. Valentine slyly
Put up his umbrella.
This shower Of hearts
Would embarrass a fellow.
I'm glad that I manage 1t
Once in a year.
Exercise Is the thing
Hearts are needing, i fear.
while many are beating.
They're all out of tune,
And cold as December
Instead of warm June.
so I'll mix 'em and change 'em
And warm 'em up, too"
! wonder If he'll fix
Your heart up for you?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
Valentine CHALLENGE.

One form which the observance of
Valentines day took in England was
that of persons valentine being the
first young man or woman that person
saw on Valentines day. This devel-
oped into the custom of challenging
ones valentine by saying, Good NOR
row, it's st. Valentines day." The
one who said it first upon meeting a
person Of the opposite sex received
a gift.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
ExempIar of Land of Opportunity.

Robert Lansing, ex-secretary of
state, said: Born in the humble cabin
of the Hodgensville farm. Abraham
Lincoln is the national exemplar of
land of equal opportunity. His life
and his career reveal the fact that
the seeds of greatness nourished in
the soul of even the most lowly may
terminate and develop TO perfection in
the atmosphere and environment of
America"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
WOLCOTT
(Deferred)

Louis Richardson is working for L. C
Udall.
Mrs. Hattie Smith is i'll, suffering from
eryesipelas.
Jerry Biscounce is convalescing from his
recent illness.
Max Kimball spent Sunday with friends
in Greensboro.
Louis Richardson was in Vergennes the
past week on business.
Harvey Bennett was at his home in
East Fairfield over Sunday.
G. L. Fireman. in again working for W.
L. Richardson, on the section.
w. E. Tracy of Johnson was in town
Friday, accompanied by A. B. Chapman.
W. S. Carpenter of New Hamsphire is
the guest Of his brother, Clinton Carpenter.
VIM. Pangle and wife who were guests at
Amos Boardman's, recently, hare returned
to their home in Stowe.
The Morse Mfg Co., have been rene
waiting and decorating their tenements in
Pottersvile. c. Nv Miles Of Hardwick
doing the job.
Mrs. Wallace Aimsworth returned home
from Milton. N. H the last of the week,
where she had been passing several days
with her parents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09

military telegraph corps of the War de-
partment, being cipher operator. l
rushed to the office. Persons | met on
the way were ignorant of the tragedy.
At the office the news had been
learned, but no details, and d. FL.
Bates, manager of the office, asked for
particulars.
"a full force of telegraphers spent
the night in the office, sending out re-
ports Of the Presidents condition. 1t
was eight o'clock on the following
morning before left for my lodgings.
l walked along G street. The morn
ing was rainy, raw and cheerless. Be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, almost in front of Epiphany
church, | met a small squad of cav
airy, accompanied by a few military
officers and civilians on foot. The
band was proceeding quietly and with
an evident desire to avoid public no
tice. They were escorting the Presi-
dents body to the White House.
There is one other memory of that
time of sorrow which | retain wildly.
On the morning the Presidents body
began the journey to Springfield it was
warm, bright and altogether day
best suited to rejoicing, yet all Wash
ington had come down town to see the
funeral procession. Professions, nor
mally, are stretched out, but this one
was made as compact as possible. In
the front went a detachment of cav
airy, wedge shaped. Very slowly they
proceeded, making their way steadily
into the crowds which swarmed the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09

Ford's theater on Tenth street,
Washington, where Lincoln was shot
20 minutes past 10 on the night OF
April IA, 1865. II is now used as a
government office building.
which would always engulf this coun-
try. Those in the theater that night
were giving vent to perhaps their first
real enthusiasm that the war had actu-
ally ended. II was to be a gala night.
An atmosphere of festivity pervaded
the place. Also, il was Laura Keene's
benefit.
"Naturally, it was a patriotic per-
Torrance. / still have a small scrap
of paper on which / wrote the musical
program. The Star-Spangled Banner
Red, White and Blue and Marching
Along were played, while the entire
company was to have sung Honor to
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
Interesting Valentine Re,d;p,

Interesting reading for Valentines
day is Dickens. account of Samivel
Weller's laborlous writing of a valep-
tine to his housemaid love, signed
your lovesick Pickwick."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09

Hives eczema, itch or saltrheum sets
you crazy Can't bear the touch of your
clothes. Doan's Ointment is fine for
skin itching. All druggists sell it, Coo
box. Reimbursement.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09

The office chair used by Lincoln in
his law office at Springfield, ILL.,, when
he was elected President in 1860 1t
was in this Identical chair that he sat
when he formed his first cabinet and
drafted his first Inaugural address be-
fore leaving for Washington.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
MlIgAskIlss.I
6IEl[5l[El[ElIElII 81 IalIsl[al[ElIE!
The house at Sic Tenth street, Wash
ington, where Lincoln died after his
assassination by Booth.

streets, forcing them silently back to
the curb. Carriages containing Off
Gals, instead of going single file went
three and four abreast The horses
footballs were the loudeSt sounds,
while sobs punctuated the stiffness of
the watching multitude"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-09
Rebuked Mob Spirit.

There is no grievance that is fit
object of redress by mob law-Lin.
coin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
Editorial of the Day
MAKE RIM WOMEN Full VOTERS

Not being a lawyer perhaps II would not be becon
ing Tor the editor o Leader doubt the soundness
the opinion rendered by the assistant attorney general
Tuesdays bond election the effect that women who
had paid property held IN their own names
entitled the auditorium bonds hut he
feels that he s perfectly within his rights ~ citizen
in saying that II that is the law. It is mighty law.
n il than that It is a legal monstrosity In
" the constitution Of the State cf okla
and the constitution of the United States of Ane'
rca both purpot have extended full aud equal rights
of suffrage
The law itself recognizes that wife il full raitne
with her husband every foot of real estate to whsh
he holds uuc-bccausc 1t requires her signature we'll
as his to make deed a conveyance " any kind
thereto When man pays IN land ne Is paving
both FOR himself and his wife and IL absurd H..
consistency which does recognize this to he fact IN
the extension of suffrage well In tho making u
deed.
Good laws and good legal opinions oush, to conform
10 good
In order Ia he that there shall he No iuib.
bling II this kind every hcnceforth should to
II that his wife henccforth taxpayer In her
Have part OF the family property rendered in her
the household goods the eat livestock-do sone
thing to make her taxpayer In black and white that
the next time bond issue up In which she is rs
much interested YOU are an official opinion. an.
consistency tn the law. make her franchise Joke
aud missioner. Frederick Leader
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER "A, 1921.
LIVING AT HOME

THERE those in the town OF Berwyn who have
planned to agitae the building OF home can
ming plant for that town. 1t is stated that lying
close by are much building material in native stone,
the plans call for building rough stone house with
a cement floor, equip with ovens and with can
ming outfit of larger size but OF the same make as
are used for home work. The plant is to be built
with labor and funds donated for that purpose, 1t is
to be the property OF the community, and the Ber-
wyn Thrift Club made up OF the women OF the city,
will schedule days TO certain parties for their use
during the growing season
Such plant will take the drudgery out OF can
ming. 1t will provide place for the women TO meet
to help each other and to teach one another how
TO do the work. 1t is possible for these people to
use such plant preserve all kinds OF vegetables
and corn and potatoes not only for the use OF that
community but to supply the shelves OF the grocers
of their own town and OF many other towns in the
county.
Should Berwyn be The first town take so
progressive step it would do that which would
make it known to every agricultural community in
the state. 1t would be leading the way in the great
fight that the people have ever been called upon
20 make-to learn how to live at home and quit de-
pending solely upon cotton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
LABEL 1T POISON

T ,ESS whskey is being used in Carter county and
there are fewer distilleres than formerly accord
ing to statements made by people from different
sections An interview with prominent physician
OF this vicinity recently in which he was quoted as
saying that many persons had lost their sight others
had lost their reason and some had lost their lives
as result OF drinking the liquor that is being made
over the country, has caused many people to quit
buying the cheap, poisonous stuff and the more in
telligent become. the better informed hey are,
the less they mbibe OF the dangerous fluid
An officer in speaking OF the plants used Tor
making liquor says that they often OF tin or
galvanized iron, they hastily built. they fire.
quenty torn up and hidden from the officers and
he has opened many OF these receptacles used for
the manufacture OF whiSkey and finds that
the lining consists OF green sediment that is very
poisonous.
During the holiday season that is now approach
ing there will be many deaths reported from drink
ing this cheaply made liquor There will be more
men cra2ed and made blind than will die. Within
one week during the past fall two men lost their
lives near here and one Ardmore lost his reason,
With such results facing the who drinks this
rotten decoction made in many instances by men
who never saw distillery it is wonder that men,
men who have any sense are getting away IRON il as
they are doing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
AWAKENING SURGERY

THE best thing about the American visit OF Dr.,
Lorenz the famous Austrian surgeon, is not the
wonderful cures he is making himself, but the way
he is advertising American surgery.
II am amazed" he says, "to think that the Ame-
rican people have not gone their own surgeons.
These people have come to rue for help when their
own felow-countrymen could help them just well,
! am glad however, ii have aroused patients. and
the parents OF patients out OF their indifference"
"All my American colleagues are experts in or,ho-
pedc surgerythere are no better in the world.
They leaders in many directions and ! do not
claim to be superior to them On the contrary |
have learned much from them. and continue doing
SO"
Yet poor old DR., Loren1 is still mobbed by clam
crowds and tens OF thousands, all over the
country lament that they cannot reach him.
This great Austrian surgeon is modest Perhaps
he is the best man in the world in his line "bloodess
surgery" 1t is agreed that he is unrivaled in dia-
gnoss OF certain ailments OF the limbs and spine
But there is room for doubt that American Surgi-
cal skill is capable OF handling nearly all of the
pressed on DR.. l.orenz capaby he is, and
that there is here greater quantity of such skill
more widely distributed, than he found in any
other country. DR.. Lorenz, therefore does his mos
helpful work for crippled Americans when he directs
them TO their own practitioners,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
Timely Views No, i" the News
STANDARDIZATION AMERICAS NEED TO CUT
LIVING COSTS, SAYS ROGER W. BABSON

THAT Standardization of production would greatly re-
duce the cost living, is the opinion of Roger W.
Babson the business satistician expressed in
address bring the point home to his hearers
Mr. Babson displayed a womans shirtwast cotton hand-
kerchef and box of peppermints.
Holding up the shirtwaist Mr. Rabson said
Il bought that shrtwast for S695. Then took 1t
to jewelry and had it weighed 1t weighed about
ounces The of the cotton it al the present
price therefore is three cents.
"OnC reason this situation YOU say, is that
women all different kind of shrtwsist
here a handkerchief which bought out
Of 4 box Of standard stock Its 50 cents. 1t
weighed and there about three.quarters OF
of cotton in IT, The cotton less than a
AT "A confectionery store | bought a pound of pep
permins. They nothing but with drop OF
peppermint. Sugar sells in New York four cents a
pound wholesale. The of this box of and
little peppermint 80 cents
Now don't think that the retailer is making un
profit these goods. He isn't Probably these
didn't get average margin their goods
The retailer, the manufacturer and the distributor
are blame The trouble is in the system
Mr. Babson declared there is something wrong in the
method of educating young for business and tha
they be educated basic principles teach them
eliminate the great waste in the distribution OF goods
in America.
He illustrated with articles which had solved th'
problem Of Standardization.
Here's q box of matches. They Blu
how much would they carpenter them? ht
asked.
"Those matches have been standardized. You don
want them long once, short the next time. slim ant
The Of distributing and marketing has beer
reduced TO the minimum"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
WHO'S WHO
in the Days NeWS
p. A. S. FRANKLIN

IF you look in Who's Who and the
various publications which record
greatness you will not find p. A. 5.
F'ranklin's name. For a man who
handles as many matters of vast
Importance TO the countrys business
as he does, he is the least known Of
any OF his contemporaries. And yet
he has climbed to the top by a steady
grind in the one business OF shipping
until he heads the great Mercantile
Marine comrany.
He first came to light as a boy
with public school education,
who went TO Paris in 1889 as
clerk TO the American commissioner
general at the Paris exposition. He
came back to take the post of office
boy for the Atlantic Transport
Company at Baltimore, where he
began showing talent and ability TO
such an extent that when he was
transferred to New York in 1891 he
was made local agent and seven
years later found him general man.
ager.
He was made vice president and
director OF the international Mer.
camille Marine in 1902, and then
was called 10 the presidency.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
CAN YOU TELL?
BY X. j. and A. w. BOOMER
No. 1I-What Bird Can Fly
Backward

The idea of flying machines undoubt-
edly came from watching birds in
flight, and yet man has become so pro-
ficient in flying that today he is
able TO fly in at least one direction
that the average bird cannot. An air
plane can fly backward. The average
bird cannot Only one kind of bird
familiar TO US can fly backward and
that is the hummlnSbird. Whether he
could continue this for any great dis.
tance is a question, for he only takes
advantage of his ability to fly out of
a flower into which he had previously
flown. AS a matter Of fact, humming
bird can perform most of the stunts
an airplane can be made to perform
Ii can fly backward and sidewise or
up and down, and it can also remain
stationary in the air, as can airplanes
when properly equipped with stabiliz-
ers. AS a matter of fact, the wings Of
hummingbird are msved in u manner
very similar 10 the way the propeller
is moved in driving an airplane.
Have you ever observed the resem.
blance between the fiylng OF birds ana
Of airplanes and noted the similarity
OF action? Have you then wondered if
birds could fly as fast as the airplane
with which we compare them. Differ
ent species have, Of course, different
rates of speed in flight. The tiny
sparrow with which we are all IA
miliar. whether we live in the city or
country. is very fast FOR his size. He
Is able TO travel short distances AT
the rate OF so miles per hour, but he
cannct keep this up for any grea,
length of time No bird, however, can
equal the speed at which aviators
now roam the skies in their airplanes
when the element Of distance enters.
| Copyright. 1921, by Public Ledger Co
! Tomorrow Did Indian Summer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
OLLIE RAMSEY AWARDED
4 JUDGMENT OF S5.0el

OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. IA
judgment OF 5000 awarded Ollie Ram.
sey by the district court OF Ottawa
county for personal injuries sus,ain-
ed while In the employ OF the Never
swet Mining company was affirmed
today by the state supreme court.
Ramsey alleged that in lodging q
boulder which threatened him while
he was screening ore, he stepped back
ward and fen into an unprotected
tramway He declared his skull was
fractured and that a jagged rocl;
against which he was thrown, pierced
his brain.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-14
t&s Se Spur tGt 2t Moment
The Record Closed

pencillike. DER the cloudy wood
Upon the HILL single shaft of light
Moves slowly through the wintry solitude
As ii mystic colophon to write,
Closing the various record Of the day
On Times vast page; and the twilight falls
The book is shut and sealed and laid away.
Till the last sudden trump 10 judgment calls.
Doris Kenyon
Now that they settling the Chinese problem al
the Washington conference, would like to state that
several weeks perfectly good shirt. which
but perhaps had better take the matter up with
Washington direct