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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
TRACING oriqin of Billiards.

Billiards is believed by some to
have been brought from the east by
the Crusaders, while others claim an
English origin for it and find it allied
to the game of bowls. Still others as
sert that the French developed it from
pretty certain that the first person to
give form and rule to the game was
an artist named Henrique Devigne,
who lived in the reign Of Charles TX.
One writer sees in billiards the an.
cient game of paillemaille played on
a table instead of on the ground, and
this is reasonable assumption.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
INGALLS, TRIBUTE 10 GR, SIS
Beautiful Word Painting Of Kansas
Statesman That Is Recognized
as Classic.

Lying In the sunshine among the
buttercups and dandellons of May,
scarcely higher in intelligence than the
minute tenants Of that mimic wilder
ness our earliest recollections are Of
grass; and when the fitful fever Is
ended and the foolish wrangle of the
market and forum Is closed, grass
meals over the scar which our descent
into the bosom of the earth has made,
ana the carpet Of the infant becomes
the blanket of the dead Grass is the
forgiveness of Nature-her constant
benedictlon. Fields trampled with
battle, saturated with blood, torn with
the ruts of cannon, grow green again
with grass, and carnage is forgotten.
Streets abandoned by traffic become
grass-grOwn like rural lanes and are
obliterated Forests decay, harvests
perish, flowers vanish, but grass is i'm
mortal. Beleaguered by the sullen
hosts of winter, it withdraws into the
impregnable fortress of it's subter-
ranean vitality and energies upon the
first solicitation Of spring. Sown by
the winds, by the wandering birds,
propagated by the subtle agriculture
of the elements which are its minis
tiers and servants, it softens the rude
outline of the world. It bears no bla-
zpnry of bloom to charm the senses
with fragrance or splendor, but it's
homely hue is more enhancing than the
lily or the rose. It yields no fruit
in earth or air and yet should its har-
vest fail for a single year, famine
would depopulate the word.-From a
collection of the Writings of John
James Ingalls,"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
GARFIELD

The Davis brothers are having new
Empire milking machine installed.
Mrs. Maud LaPlant, who has been II
and under the doclor's care. is now much
better.
Alvah and Qrrir Emerson OF Fletcher
vile were ge%ts at Burton Eastman's
last Sunday.
Harry Davis and daughter Edith were
visitors at F. B. Noble's Sunday. Edith
will remain there a lew days.
Dr.. Griswold was called to this place
LAST Saturday TO ATTEND the little son of
A. {. Munson, who was suffering from
an attack OF larry ngitis. The child is E.
ported 10 be muca better today.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Natal Superstition.

Persons born between October %
and November -. when the sun is in
ScOrpiO, have a courageous loving
disposition. Have natural dignity and
great persuasive ability. Make friends
readily. Have more power over minds
of others than over their own impulses.
They are aggressive and executive, and
naturally fitted to oveNee others. They
are capable of great things If they
can be induced to stay at one thing
long enOugh-but are impatient of re-
suits. They are well adapted for gov
eminent jobs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
THEY'LL GET YOU SOME Way
City Scalawags Hard to Beat, Accord
ing to Testimony of Visitor From
Jif1pson Junction.

'If them Internal scalawags I'D
there in Kay See can't get you one
way they will anotherw disgruntlodly
asserted the gent from Jimpson juno
ton, who was just back from a brief
stay in the Big Burg. pretend to do
you a favor and then skin you alive!
luther night in my room in the hotel
| was tending to my own business
when a Teller in the next room yelled
what in all this and that was coming
off.
I'm mailing my clothes to the floor,
If it's any Of your by-gosh business y I
hollered back. I'm a tollable sound.
sleeper, and don't aim to have my best
suit stole while I'm slumbering.'
why, you pea-green yokelr he
yelled back, what will you do If The
fire department goes roaring by in he
middle of the night and you can't yanz
on your clothes and run after it,?
"By cripes! hadn't though Of
that says I. 4 would be in Il dickens
of a fix, wouldn't I? I'll claw my
clothes loose from the floor and run
the risk of having them stole,
woudnt like TO miss a good fire Much
obliged to YOU, sirr
We'll I done 50. and went to sleep,
and as far as / know the fire depart
ment never made n run the whole
night long And next morning my
clothes were gone, and so was the fell
Ter in the next room "-K0ug0s Civ
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
unluckv Birthday.

People born on Saturday (Saturn's
day), will have much difficulty in ac-
hard. This may make them melan-
choly and avariciOus and inclined to
run into debt. They should guard
against carelessness in dress and the
reading of evil books. They will be sub
ject to disease of legs and knees. They
will have much fhck in finding hidden
treasure; will be apt to be uncomely
and unpopular.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

The Rutland Herald makes an unwonted
attack upon Representative Stearns be-
cause of his strong opposition to the
teacher training college and opposition to
the present methods of State Board of
Education and educational affairs general
ly. Because Of the stand Mr.. Stearns
takes the Heard accuses him-cf sinister
method end a desire to futher personal
political motives. TIE Hearldis unfairin
these accusations. Mr.. Stearns went to
the Legislature with the honest intention
of doing all in his power to retain the
present Normal Schools and to do that he
was not slow in showing that the larger
towns were against this and that the
smaller towns and "the girl with ginham
dress" were receiving unfair treatment.
Whatever the outcome ofthis long drawn
out contention may result ii, nobody can
say that Mr.. Stearns has not been sincere
in his efforts and that personal political
desires were remote from his intentions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
NORTH HYDE PARK

Jos. Kneeland is visitor in Morrisville
Fred McGinnis was down from Lowell
over Sunday. :
Mrs. Ida AtwelI of Johnson has rented
the Haleston house.
Merritt Earle and family went to Low
ell Sunday for visit.
John Adams has Returned from visit
among friends in Calais.
Miss Isabel Baker has gone to Rutland
where she has employment.
The village school will open for the
spring term Tuesday, April 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Sargent Of Johnson
visited at Frank Sargent's Sunday.
Earl Kneeland, who has been in Lewis
town, Me-. the past year. it at home.
Ralph Terrill, of Morrisville, came Mon
day to visit bis friend, Geo. McA.lister.
Charles Parkhurst, who has employ
ment in Johnson, was at home Sunday.
Mrs. Shirley OWtt and Mrs. Jennie
Kneeland were on the sick list last week.
Orman Adams and wife are visiting
their daughter, Mrs. Glenna Styles, in
Morrisvile.
Mrs. Perley Jacobs was in Burlington
Monday to visit her daughter Ildah at the
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Shufelt and Miss
Rhoda Bean of Johnson were visitors last
Sunday at c. w. Manning's.
Mrs, Viola Gilbert of Morrisville was
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. II.
Kneeland, few days recently.
Moving pictures for the next few weeks
will be on Monday, instead of Friday,
evenings, beginning April 4th.-adv
The Mite Society ladies served supper
last Thursday evening, putting up the
usual good feed Of beans, salads, &c.
Mrs. Kate Eastman has returned from
where she was called by the
death of her father, Orlin Spaulding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Whitney, who
have oeen guests at H. E Beardsley''s, |
have returned to their home in Boston.
Little Esther Gillen, who went to visit
her sister, Mrs. Roy Leach, in Eden, has
been quite sick from bilious grip, but is
better now Some of the other children
in the Gillen family, who have been sick,
are also better.
Ildah, the nine-year-old daughter Of Mr.. |
and Mrs. PerIey Jacobs, was taken sud
denly ill when visiting in Morrisville, and |
was taken to the Mary Fletcher Hospital
N Burlington, where she was operated !
upon at once. At latest report she was
in comfortable condition.
Mrs. Arthur Williams died last Thurs
lay, a few hours after giving birth to a
laughter. The funeral was held Saturday !
rom the Corgr church, Rev. MIR, Mercer
2f Hyde Park officiating. The body was
placed in the vault at Morrisvile to await |
burial later Mr. ami Mrs. Stapleton Of
3elvidere and MIR. and Mrs. Arthur
Wright of Stowe were here to attend the |
uneral.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Gihon Grange

The men of the Grange are preparing a
program under the direction Of Charles
Hadley which will be presented soon. 1t
will be a contest" program against the
ladies, who will prepare the one to follow
after. It has leaked out that the loving
couple married in last years entertain-
ment are, in the natural order Of events,
resorting to the divorce court to end their
troubles. Watch out for a most enter
tanning evening.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Riverside

Robert Hubbard of Greenfield spent
Sunday at Arthur Pages.
Last Sunday party OF forty attended
a sugar party at Arthur Hers. All had
fine time.
Mrs. Sadie Butts of Morrisville visited
her aunt, Mrs. Oscar Whitcomb, a couple
of days last week.
Miss Helen Bucklin was visitor in
Morrisville Saturday. She spent the
weekend with Mr.. ard Mrs. Ernest
Mills at the Street.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Minina Potash.

Potash IN Germany occurs ii the
form of rock salt and runs in seams
of thirty feet or more in thickness.
AS mined It has about the same con-
sistency as the common rock salt Of
commerce, and its grinQ,lg is easy.
The depths at which the 5tIe potash
deposits are situated make 1t neces-
sary to sink shafts leading to levels
of as much as 5000 feet below the
surface
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

Junction, Gardella Albert and Joseph
Fodetta, Maurice Ducharme, Mrs.
Sadie Butts of Morrisville.
Last Monday the water went up in
the Gihon so, that those who have
lived beside it for years never saw it
so high, the water was washing up
on the sides of the covered bridge,
above the plant, and broke off a num-
Der of the ends of the boards on the
sides. Lucky for the town it did not
amble down stream.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

Hon. Chas. Watson has been appointed
"city manager Of the city council" of St.
Albans-a temporary appointment, but all
the same one that Mr.. Watson is well
qualified to fill. Mr.. Watson is a repre-
sentative citizen of Vermont And he is
well fitted for any position that his city or
the state may call on him to fill. Yer
mon may wake up to this fact some time
and make use Of him in a higher position.
Yes, he is a Democrat; but what does that
matter when you want who has the ability
and qualifications
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Every Great Book.

Every great book Is an action, and
every great action is a book. All who
would study with advantage in any
art whatsoever, ought to betake them
selves to the reading of some sure and
certain books oftentimes over; for to
read many books produceth confusion,
rather than learning, like as those
who dwell everywhere are not any
where at home.-Martin Luther.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Only Tue Reform.

The only reform that really reforms
is the reform thai comes from the
heart of the inCividual. Not all the
kings laws nor all the kings statutes
can reform, al evil communicative
de Boulogne.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Bears. and Telephone Poles.

Every telephone and telegraph pole
in the remote districts of Norway has
to be constantly watched on account
of the bears, which have a mania for
climbing the poles and sitting on the
cross bars, swaying backward and
forward until the pole falls.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

The Legislature will finish up this week i.
Tt has been remarkable session-noted
especially for its salary-raising feature.
Some important measures have been en-
acted ard Others not. 1t will hardly be
on a par with other sessions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
Natural Result

"Some men are bashful when II
comes to meeting their obligations"
remarks an exchange. This may be
because they are financially shy
Boston Transcript.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
FELCHERVIlIE

Max Fredett is on the sick list.
Ely Giroux was home for Sunday.
Joel Chattin has bought colt from
Will Boyes.
All send best wishes to papa and
mamma Jones.
Elmer Boyes and wife were at Joel
Whitcomb's last Sunday.
Uncle James Roddy is feeling quite
little better this week.
Clinton Styles spent Sunday with
his sister, Mrs. Will Grimes.
Mr.. Wright has been helping them
out in Morristown and Stowe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hooper pass
ed Sunday at his brother Franks.
Tom Hyde from Centerville has
been put on to Pages farm force.
George Allen visited his mother,
Mrs. Corbett in Underhill, recently.
At Mr.. Decell's Sunday gramma
came over to see the grandson.
Miss Effie Jones entertained her
friend, Miss Gladys Bohannon over
Sunday.
Pat Manning came over from Cen
terville and sawed Ed Jones wood
pile last Saturday,
Mrs. Myrtle Burelson and mother
OF North village passed a couple of
days with their friends, the Bessey's.
Miss Beatrice Giroux and her
friend Miss Tatro returned Wednes-
day to their work in Burlington. Come
again.
Well, again the honk of the autos,
but am afraid the nasty disposition
of March will have to show out be-
fore the end of the month.
News was sent Cover that one of
our girls that is young matron of
stork who left fine little daughter
Mr.. LABEL has lost one of his work
horses, the veterinary pronouncing it
lock jaw and no help but to shoot.
Too bad and spring work almost here.
The Sherlow girls, Misses Whit
comb and Jones came in Friday even
ing to see the boy and Mrs. Fred Ran
SUM VI tIG F4IlGSG tc4ltC uJ all -dll
again.
Mrs Lucius Noyes went with her
neice, Miss Dot Tillotson to Burling-
ton Satul day, where the latter was
operated on Tuesday morning. Mrs. |
Noyes will stay till she is well out OF
the effects Of the operation.
Our stage driver is back and run
ming the car. All are in hopes he will |
be the one to have the route for an
other four years. Always pleasant |
and accommodating and on time with !
the mail. It would seem too bad to
change.
Those who passed Sunday at the
pleasant home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Whitcomb were Mr.. and Mrs. VIII |
Patch and two children of Johnson,
Mrs. George Stockwell of Cambridge
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

The Burlington News makes a strong
and earnest appeal for an increase in
States Attorneys salaries. Other salar-
les have been lacked up and we see no
reason why the States Attornies should
not be put in the same class. Eventually,
Why not now?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

The State Highway Commissioner con-
troversy has been settled by the appoint
ment of Prof. T. W. Dix of the Univer-
sity Ct Vermont as Commissioner. The
selection is sud TO oe good one and the
salary is fixed at $4,000. Now we would
like to enquire where does Stod Bates get
off?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
And He Would Not Smile.

"That head waiter would smile and
take your last dollar"
Probably not. He wouldn't accept
as little as a dollar under any circum,
stances" ~
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30
News and Citizen
L. H. LEWIS : EDITOR

Jacksonville follows the example Of
Stowe and organizes a Civic Club This
is an example that some of the other vii
lagos in this county might we'll initiate.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

Those who passed Sunday at the
pleasant home of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Whitcomb were Mr. and Mrs. VIII
Patch and two children of Johnson,
Mrs. George Stockwell of Cambridge
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-30

Our stage driver is back and run
ming the car All are in hopes he will
be the one to have the route for an
and accommodating and on time with
the mail 1t would seem too bad to
change.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-08
of welfare or IA playground of per-
lection or anything else is not likely
to help the situation.
The Colombian Canard

The letters exchanged between
/ Theodore Roosevelt and Senator
Fall, yesterday published by The
Tribune, dispose of the rumor that
the former had changed his views
with respect to the Colombian
treaty and favored buying pre-
tense of friendship.
Colonel Roosevelt, of course, was
not opposed to treaty Of COM
merce, amity and navigation with
Colombia or any nation. He had
done Colombia no wrong and felt
no animosity toward her. But he
did not even remotely suggest that
$25, 100000 be paid to her because
of our acquisition of the canal strip,
or that she should be given special
canal privileges. The story recent
ly put in circulation that Colonel
Roosevelt had altered his view is
thus shown to be an invention.
Why has the Colombian treaty
carrylng a provision for $25,-
100000 payment and plainly i'm
piled acknowledgment of dishonor,
never been adequately explained to
the public? There are reports that
oil interests which desire conccs-
sions in Colombia are behind the re-
suscitation, but this is scarcely
credible. No one would throw I'M
pediments in the way of American
concerns doing business in Colom-
bia, but if the privileges sought are
worth 100000 to private per-
sons they should hardly be paid for
out of the public Treasury under
conditions that would be a confess
sion of wrong to Colombia when
none was done.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-08

Next Friday is the last day for the
payment of state income taxes. Yet
the State Tax Department has taken
no steps to amend regulations for
the computation of the tax which are
manifestly inequitable, and have
been condemned as such by the
United States Supreme Court.
The court held that profits from
the sale of securities or property
may be taxed as income, but only if
they are actual profits. The Federal
Internal Revenue Bureau and the
state Tax Department both pre-
scribed rules by which actual losses
might be converted into profits and
levied on as income and actual
profits might be converted into losses
and thus escape taxation. This
topsy-turvy result was accomplished
by holding that the value of property
sold should be returned not at it's
real purchase cost, but, if bought
prior to March 1, 1913, in one case,
or prior to January /, 1919, in the
other, at the quotation price on these
two dates, respectively. The Supreme
Court followed common sense in re-
iecting such accounting legerdemain.
Why substitute q fictitious purchase
price for real purchase price?
Senator Davenport has introduced
a bill to harmonize state practice
with the Supreme Courts decision.
1t ought to be acted ON at once. Those
who have to pay fictitious tax
under the present regulations will
protest against the exaction and will /
in all probability get d refund from
the state hereafter. Those who ben
eft by the regulation will avoid tax
alton, and the state cannot we'll ask
them to make up the difference later.
Many state returns will be confused !
New-York tribune., 1921-04-08
Mr.. Wells and the Cherry

There is no one who can observe
better than Mr.. III. G. Wells or set
down his observations more limpidly.
There is no one who can assemble
knowledge faster and analyze and
summarize it more wildly. But it
would almost seem that the more he
learns the less he knows.
This conclusion is especially driven
home by his article in last weeks
Saturday Evening Post. Europe is
sinking, he declares confidently, and
there is only one way to save it.
'No doubt, the most evident syn
thetic forces in America at the present
time point toward some sort of pan
American unifcation. That is the
nearest thing. That may come first.
But are we to contemplate sort of
New-York tribune., 1921-04-08

and vitiattd if the conflict between
the Income Tax Bureau and the
Supreme Court is not adjusted.
Senator Davenport's bill may not
pass in time; but the bureau can at
least announce that it has abandoned
the fictitious valuation regulation as
the Federal Treasury Department
has now abandoned it, Unfortu-
nately the Treasury's action came
too late to affect Federal returns for
1920, and the Federal government is
in the position Of having collected
taxes in hundreds of thousands of
cases to which it was not entitled. A
similar chaos in state collections can
be avoided by little forethought at
Albany.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-08
Rights for Pauoers

We read the proposal to change
the name Of Blackwel's Island
to Welfare Island with min
gled emotions. 1t is, of course, a
lovely, all-but-perfect world in
which we live. The pity is great
that any dark spots, however tiny,
still exist to mar the glory of our
scientifically scrubbed and polished
civilization. Why should we not
pretend that these spots have been
already abolished? What fancy
cou4d be more harmless or better
calculated to ring in the millennium
an hour or two ahead Of schedule?
But with all admiration and re-
gard for the Pollyannists there are
after all, the paupers and the few
other remaining unfortunates-
that is the proper term for Grim
lnals, we believe-to be considered.
Have they not, after all, some
rights? 1t is bad enough to be pun
ished; it must make the punishment
far worse to have the punishers roll
their eyes heavenward and chant
their own perfection while admins
tering the spanking. We are re-
minded of the parents who admins
ter the slipper, accompanied by a
lecture devoted to the philosophy of
"1t hurts me more than it does you"
1t is the universal testimony of
youthful culprits, we believe, that
such talk engenders wrath and no
beneficial moral reaction.
We fear the case is similar with
criminals from paupers up. Take
the question of capital punishment.
AS mankind has grown more gentle
he has not had the courage to abol-
ish legal killing, but he has dressed
it up in all sorts ofsupposedly benign
decorations of undoubted value in
camoufiaging the act to the public
conscience, but of most question
able value to the victim. An execu-
ton used to be rather bold and
sensational event, matter of
between criminal and pop
ulace, with many trimmings calcu-
lated to make the event pass off
sayly. Thanks to our modern
squeamishness, we have transformed
it into secret, silent, ghoulish af-
fair calculated to break the heart of
the stoutest. 1t still hurts the Grim
inal more than it does the fond pub
lie, alas, and calling a Jail altemple