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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
LOCAL NE WIS
WORRISVILLE

This paper three months for so cts
anywhere in Vermont six months $1.00.
Orland Batten, who has completed hi
course at Peoples Academy has returned
to his home in Albany.
r. L. Barrows has returned from Rut
land where he spent the latter part of the
week attending the meeting of the State
Agents of the Provident Life and Trust
Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Sargent and son
Walter went Saturday to St. Johnsbury,
motoring Sunday to Crawford Notch,
Where they met DR.. G.. c. Rublee for a
picnic dinner.
Mrs. w. Blackburn and little daughter
Eveline, who have spent several weeks at
the home of the formers brother, the Rev.
George E. Goodliffe let Friday morning
for their home in Toronto.
W. F. Churchill motored to Burlington
Thursday to bring home Mrs. A. M.
Adams, who has been at the Mary Flet-
cher hospital for treatment for some time.
Mrs. Adams is much improved ir health.
Mrs. C. M. Powers, Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Mrs. c. P. browne, Miss Mary Moody
and Miss Louise Slocum returned Friday
night from Bennington where they at
tended the annual meeting of the State
Federation of Woman's Clubs.
Miss Elizabeth Powers, who has been a
member OF the Faculty of the Rchford
High School for the past year, has return
ed home and will spend the summer with
her parents, Justice and Mrs. G. M. Pow
ers. Miss Daisy Stewart, who is instruc-
tor in English in the same school, has also
returned home.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Mental House Cleaning.

The majority of people need a men,
tai house cleaning. Mental filth and
scum never contribute to clean living.
Learn to tackle big problems and con-
tribute your mite to the worlds prog
r6ss. When the mind sees things in the
right perspective you can build noble
STRUCTURES on the concept. And as you
build the ideals will expand in scope,
taking breadth and altitude as the
mind dwells on "the worth while"
There has never been a greater Chal-
lenge for men of giant mind than now.
Yet so often what glows in promise is
little more than the effervescence of
fetid ideals. Men need the clean life,
1t offers nothing it cannot fulfill. The
progress of it may be slow, but it rises
to heights never reached by men OF
degraded mentality. You can reform
the past if >you think and do right.
Step into the forefront and lead men
out of the present unrest into clean,
noble living that will eXalt the nation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Alumni Reunion

In place OF the usual Banquet, the AL.
umni Association held reunion at Acad
envy Hall this year, the event occurring on
Tuesday evening, June 9TH, and proving
to be one of the most enjoyable occasions
of the entire week. Over one hundred
were present. The guests we're received
by committee consisting of Hon. T. c.
Cheney, President OF the Association, Mrs.
Cheney, Prof. and Mrs. Burns, and other
members of the faculty, Robert Wiley of
the Senior Glass, and Miss Mary Jean
Simpson, former preceptress of the Acad-
envy. The charming, decorations which
had been arranged for the Junior Recep.
tion also served for this occasion, and the
large hall presented most attractive ap-
pearance.
An orchestra of four pieces furnished
music. and a miscellaneous musical pro-
gram was given, including duet by Mrs.
Tia Niles Jackson and c. w. Barrows,
flute solo by Miss Mary Magner, vocal
solo by Miss Gladys Dick, and violin
solo by Philip Goddard, all of which was
heartily enjoyed by the gathering.
Following the program the annual bust
ness meeting was held, and officers elected
as follows:-
President Mrs Geo. A. Mopse.
president, Roy G. Stafford.
Secretary, Mrs, Percy Sweetzer.
Treasurer, Miss Rena Merrill.
Executive Committee, Harold Ryder,
Ina Wells and A. H Slayton.
Music was furnished for dancing until
11:3O, and refreshments of ice cream and
cake were provided in the Domestic
Sciknce Rooms, which were PRETTY trim
med with wild-fowers. The committee in
charge, Mrs. Morris Greene, chairman,
deserve much praise for the SUCCESS of the
affair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Sing Sing Indian Name.

Sing Sing prison, the stone, ~
rather dolomite marble bastile at o.
shining, N Y, is rather appropriately
named, according ito authorities who
trace the word back to the Indian lam
guage, and find that it means stony
place. The town itself was originally
called Sing Sing. 1t is beautifully SITE
uated on the Hudson and commands,
from its elevated site. many fine views
1t was settled by white people about
1903.
Some authorities say the Sin Sink
Indians were Whereabouts at that time.
and attribute the name of the city to
them The prison was built there IN
1926, when Capt. Elan Lynds took 100
cOnvicts there and gave them orders
to wall themselves in.
In 1901 the town, after several I'M
successful attempts, changed its name
to Ossining, because of objections due
to the association of its name with the
prison,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
The World by Color.

If we speak by continents, the
really white world consists of Europe,
North America to the Rio Grande, the
southern portion of South America,
the Siberian part Of Asia, and Aus
tralasia, the last two, of course, being
very thinly inhabited. On the other
hand, the world of color consists OF
the bulk of Asia, virtually the whole
of Africa, and most of Central and
South America. The great bulk of
the white race is, of course, concen-
trated in the European continent.
Four-ffths of the entire white race
lives on less than one-fifth of the
white worlds area. OF the colored
races the yellow are naturally the
most numerous, living in eastern Asia,
and numbering over 500,000,00O. The
browns number more than 100000, 900
while the blacks, whose center is
Africa, south of the Sahara desert,
total about 150OO0,OO0. The reds are
of course of less consequences
being few in number.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
PLINY CREDITED WITH YARN
Ancient Roman Said to Have 0riqina.
ted Remarkable Story Concern
ing Habits of Tiger.

According to Pliny, when a hunter
wished to catch tiger cubs he must be
provided with very fleet horse and
have another in reserve. "When the
tgress finds her lair emptv she darts
forth and tracks them bv the smell.
When she comes I'D to the hunter he
throws one of the vhelns TO her. With
which she returns to her lair. Then she
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
LAKE IS NATURAL WONDER
Body of Water That Has Many Re-
markable Qualities Is Found in
North Australia.

Lake Eyre Is one of the wonders of
the continent. The district is actually
below the level of the sea, yet in the
near neighborhood of the lake are
some fine springs Of water that may
be considered fresh in that cattle will
drink from them. SO, too, can drovers,
though the water has medicinal eff
feet which prejudices them in their
appraisal of its value.
In the center of the lake Is an
island of rare beauty. legend Is
that, many years ago, perhaps when
the first droving party doctor
Black's) took cattle through to the
Northern territory, one of the more
daring Of the party of white men, I'M
hceding the warning of the blacks.
an col man debil-debil" lived in the
lake, and fed on men who ventured
into the water, undertook to get to the
island. He started away on horse
back, but did not return. The blacks,
who have mysterious means of COM
munication, gave it out that his horse
had made the island, where the animal
was seen by some of them long after
the cattle party had gone. That
proved the legend as far as they were
concerned.
One Of the peculiarities of the wa
ter of the lake is that it will preserve
anything thrown into it. 1t is exceed
ingly buoyant. Stones thrown into it
do not sink. ct may be stated~that
some of the stone-the kind that does
not sink-would probably float in any
kind of water, being pumice of the
lightest variety, almost spongy in tex
ture.)-Sydney (Australia) Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Jubilee Singers a Delight

The morning service at the Congrega-
tional Church on Sunday June 9Th, was
of decidedly unusual cha, acter, the SER
vice being conducted by DR.. Howard A.
M Briggs, President of the Straight Col
lege, New Orleans, La. and a group of
five young coloied men from the college,
who furnished music. The youths all
possessed rich and pleasing voices, and de-
lighted the congregation with their rendi-
ton of several of the old-fashicned negro
"spirituals'' songs fluent in melody and
heart-reaching in their minor dlarmonies
ard their naive picture of the emotional
darkies' conception Of tn, spiritual life
and his effort to translate it to everyday
terms of expression. 1t is a peculiar
trait of the negro's musical character
that although he may know nothing of
counterpart and written Harmony. he
seldom makes discord. He seems nat
uraly to fall into line and carry a part. !"
Among the numbers given we're Steal
Away to Jesus, Swing Low Sweet Char
lot, Was You There When They Crycifed
My Laud? Going to Walk All over
Heaven, Oh LII David Play on Your
Harp, and for an unforgetable finale, Old
Black Joe.
DR.. Briggs spoke Interestingly and earn
estly of his work as President of the in
stitution, which is the only school for
Misunderstanding in the state of Louisiana.
He began by sketching the relation of the
white man to other races, and his feeling
that by reason of his white blood he was
superior. He carried the analogy through
to the present time of race riots and min
or tronbles between the races in America,
and made strong plea for the recogni-
ton of the negro as human being, and
his salvation through education In con-
nection with his argument he told many
interesting and humorous anecdotes illus
trative of his points and the work in gen.
eral.
In closing he made a plea for money,
for musical instruments and for clothing
for some OF the girl students of the college,
and finally for subscriptions for a new
dormitory. The total pledges and contri-
49, AoI
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Beaver Colony for Profit

Probably the largest fur farm In
the West is beaver ranch at Edger-
ton, Canada, where more than 100
beavers are being raised with the ex-
pectation of providing yearly reve-
nue as soon as 1t is believed they have
multiplied sufficiently to justify some
trapping. The ranch Is located on
the banks, of small creek which has
been the home of a colony of beavers
for years, and on account OF the rapid
multiplication the owner of the land
secured privileges of breeding them
and selling the increase.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
SEE HERE I!
Do You Want Your Kidneys
EXperimented On?

Kidney troubles are getting more COM
mon every day. Government health
bureau figures say deaths from this cause
are 1870 more than 20 years ago.
Anybody who suffers constant backache,
who feels blue, nervous and irritables; who
has dizzy spells, headache and urinary
disorders should suspect kidney weakness
Overworked kidneys must have a rest.
Take things easier; live more carefully.
Take good kidney remedy to build the
kidney up again.
But be sure to get Doan's Kidney Pills
the oldest, the most widely used, the
best recommended of all kidney pills, now
in use all over the civilized world. Don't
experiment with your kidneys. Thous-
ands have already tested Doan's. You
have their experience to s. by. Plenty
of eases right here in Morrisville. Here's
one:
P. St John, Main St., Morrisvile, says
Il have used Doau's Kidney Pills for sew
eral years when my back and kidneys
have been out of order and they never
fail to give me fine relief. get this won
derful remedy at Cheney's Durg Store
and surely recommend it highly"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't simply
ask for kidney remedy-get Doan's Kid
ney Pills = the same that Mr.. st. John
had Foster. Milh,1rn Mfrs Buffalo NY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Recent Real Estate
Transactions

Harry L. Smith has sold his farm on the
Laporte Road to D. P. Ballard and wife
Of Cloverdale.
]. A. Waite has purchased the ST. John
Cottage at Elmore Pond from the Peter
St. John Estate.
A. W. Lawson has purchased of Joseph
Bassett his house at the farther end of
High street, Mr.. Bassett having bought
of J. A. Waite his house on Randolph. St..
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15
Squeaking Shoes.

The annoying "squea&" that some
shoes have is caused .,9 layers or
pieces of leather ruhhlDg together.
Some shoemakers open the side and
insert a bit of felt; or q peg or two,
or a number of pegs driven into the
sole from the outside stops the sound.
Hostess.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

One bright moonlight night my IN
tie four-year-old sister was playin
on the front lawn. Presently the Lii
tie one gazed at the sky intently foo
a few minutes and then queried, Oh
sis, when the sun sets does 1t hatch
the moon Y'-Chicago American.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

An alleged counterfeiter says he
learned the art of making bad money
while in prison. Apparently he didn't
leave the prison with the intention of
making good.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Though it is now claimed that Roger
Bacon knew the microscope in the
Thirteenth century, he refraineG from
naming single germ after himself.
There was self-control
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The fact that so few people under
stand Professor Einsteins theory Of
relatively may be due to the fact that
it suggests no method of improving
business or relieving taxation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

If the home garden is to be a sue
cess this year there has got to be an
improvement in the weekend meteor
illogical conditions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Promised reductions in the price of
bread will bring home the fact that
living is really cheaper. Say it with
flour and everybody listens.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The proposal to tax imported eggs
to protect United States hens against
foreign competition shows a proper re-
gard for the sanctity of the home
nest.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Would it not be humane and ideal
ss~way of dealing with both pests to
teach the English sparrows to eat
dandeliOns?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Besides liquidating its war obliga-
lions, the world is taking a great deal
of the water out of inflated stock
values.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The Einstein theory is like a photo
graph record of highbrow classical
music-~a good thing to spring on
caller who's a bore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

If there is a secret, armed cOmmun-
list guard in this country, it would do
well not only to remain secret, but to
give up its arms and communism.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The man you hire by the hour to
beat your rug gives you the impression
he used to be a ball player. Three
strikes and he sits down.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

AS a nation that refused to accept
any international obligations China is
a shining example.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

living, a retail meat dealer cuts some
ice, but that's all.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Health week is past, but there is
no law against being healthy during
the remaining weeks of the year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Japan's zap note was almost too
frank to be Japanese and too definite
to be diplomatic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

IT is said that city jewellers usually
have darker hair than country people,
particularly in the soft coal season.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Ground soon will be broken for
several fishing trips.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Apparently Germanyis willing to dc
anything except what it has been tOlt
to do.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Optimism is the art of planting a
pint of potatoes and expecting crop
of barrel.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The disappointed job seeker needs
the services of a pull-motor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

These parachute jumps prove at
least that the jumper comes back to
earth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Bankrupt Austria loses the great
natural resources of Tyrol, which are
scenery and yodeling.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Germany is pretty nearly as re-
soureeful as a corporation lawyer at
the job of pOstponing the inevitable.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The only trouble with telephone
service in Cuba may be an occasional
shark on the wire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Failing prices are like comets-most-
ly tales.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The law of supply and demand
makes lot of talk cheap.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

One of the arguments for free
speech is that so little of it is worth
anything
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

BY the time the neighbours phono
graph quits, his rooster begins.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Any comment on women's fashions
now is story of the films.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Whoever named the island Of zap
was prophet, all right.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

That zap controversy might be
termed much ado about almost moth
ing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

The old stage coach robbery has fol-
lowed the rural population to town.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-06-15

Read the Advertisements
Smyrna times., 1921-04-13
OPENS BALKY MILFORD VAULT
Postmaster Finds Contents Intact
Burglars Unable to Break Open Door

Postmaster Finds Contents Intact
Burglars Unable to Break Open Door
Having succeeded, with the assist
ance of his help, in opening the vault
door at the postoffice of Milford Tues
day afternoon, Postmaster William
Robinson found the contents intact.
The door had been jammed by safe
blowers early the morning previous.
''The burglars got nothing" Mr.. Rob
inson reported. "We have found
everything we thought at first was
missing and the thieves did not get
into the vault. The only loss that will
be sustained will be the cost of repairs
to the vault, the handle and combina-
ton having been blown off by the
burglars" Postoffice Inspector. Con-
ner, of Wilmington, has begun an in
vestigation of the attempted robbery
So far there is no trace of the thieves
or the car they stole from Leonard
Abbott, in which they made their get
away.
Smyrna times., 1921-04-13
KENT ORATORICAL CONTEST
Number From Smyrna Motor to Do
yer to Boost Smyrna Contestants
Who Lost Out in the Race

WhO GOSL OuL III the race
Quite number of high school pupils
motored to Dover Friday night to
boost the Smyrna contestants winners
of the local high school contest in
their effort to compete for honors in
the county high school contest. Miss
Eliza Cook, Miss Frances Sevil and
Leslie Moore, of Smyrna, made a
splendid showing but neither won hon
or mention. There We're twelve con-
testants in the oratorical contest of
the pupils of Kent county high schools
the meeting being held in the Century
Club building. Those who were heard
We're Eliza Cook, Smyrna; Elizabeth
Crosby, Dover; Ruth Goodwin, FELTON,;
Frank Gruwell, Harrington; Wayne
Lawrence, FELTON,; Leslie Moore,
Smyrna; Elizabeth Phillips, Caesar
Rodney school; M. J. Lynn Pratt, Mil
ford; Frances Sevil, Smyrna; Esther
Ruston, Dover; Carl Scull, Caesar
Rodney school; Roma G. Smith, Mil
ford; Blanche Thawley, Harrington.
The judges were Mrs. Annie E. Sny-
der, rural supervisor New Castle coun-
ty; Russell T. Davies, Wesley Colleg-
late Institute. After the addresses
had been made the judges an not with
out some difficulty announced as the
winners Elizabeth Crosby, first prize
]. Lynn Pratt, second; Carl Scull
third.
Smyrna times., 1921-04-13
ACTIVITY AT BOWERS BEACH
Big Dance Pavilion Underway-Fish-
ermen's Club House Started

Dig lance FaVlllIOn On0erWay-f1Sh-
ermen's Club House Started
Mechanics are at work at Bowers
Beach putting the finishing touches on
the first new building to be erected on
the property of the Bowers Beach
Corporation on the beach front. 1t
looks like business at the beach with
truck load after truck load of piling
arriving, these piles are to be used in
building swimming pool. General
Manager Durborough says he expects
to have dancing twice week begin
ming the last week in April. An or
chestra of six pieces will furnish the
music. The building now being COM
pleted will be temporarily used for
dancing and shore dinners. 1t has a
dance floor of LOG by 80 feet with am
pie space on the sides for the serving
of refreshments. Plans are being
completed for the new pavilion which
will be located on the beach front and
which will be 100 feet long by 80 feet
wide. The dance floor in this new
building will be 120 by 40 feet. Grad
ing has been started on the site of the
new "ishermen's club" This build
ing will contain about 100 rooms and
will be constructed and operated with
the idea of catering to the "rod and
reel" fraternity. This building also
will be located on the beach front,
Smyrna times., 1921-04-13
GRANGE MEETS IN SMYRNA
Kent Grange Assemblies and Hears
Some Interesting Talks

Some Interesting Talks
One of the largest attended as well
as one of the most interesting meet
ings of Pomona Grange of Kent Coun-
ty, was held in Smyrna Thursday at
an all-day meeting. About $50 were
present. The business session took
place in Grange Hall after which
Smyrna Grange acted as host to de-
lightful banquet in the Century Club
House. In the subjects discussed at
the business session, none elected
more attention than "Co-operative
Farming" lead by Milford Grange.
When eggs were selling here from 18
cts. to % cts. two weeks ago, Milford
farmers were getting 28 cents and
during the higher prices last winter,
Milford market was correspondingly
higher. The cooperative association
of Milford, it was pointed out, is a
child Of the Grange and is doing
splendid work in keeping farmers to-
gether and maintaining market that
pays. There was not town with a
grange in Kent County that was not
represented in Smyrna and the visit
ing delegatios were pleased with
Smyra hospitality and over the de-
lightful and profitable day spent.