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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
THINNING TO IMPROVE FRUIT
Experimental Work Shows Increase In
Next Years Crop and Better
Size and Grade.

In years Of heavy crops neglect Of
thinning IS often ruinous to the next
years crop. Sometimes half the to-
tai number Of apples set will BE-
thinned Of SO sufficient fruit buds
viii form 20 provide for the next
years yield.
Experimental work with both
peaches and apples shows not only
the Increase IN next years crop but
also and this Is more important A
vast Improvement Is the size and
grade q The individual fruits pro
duced during TIE current season.
Thinning i not done 20 decrease the
number % bushels % fruit. but the
number y Individual fruits produced
t 3 found
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22

unless they are protected; while In
the warmer parts apples, currsnts,
gooseberries and certain varieties OF
several Of the other fruits fall because
they are not adapted to the long hot
summers and mild winters. But In
these warmer regions. japanese per-
simmons succeed. and In some Of
them figs and certain other fruits can
be planted successfully. Therefore.
one of the most important features OF
the plan for the home fruit plantation
is the selection OF kinds Of fruits. and
varieties of those kinds, which will do
well In the given locality, and which
will serve best the purpose for which
they are desired.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
Try journal" Job Printing
WE BUY FLEECE WOOL

well Hides Skins Bones and all kindred
modties at outside market prices
We pay spot cash. We pay freight 200 lbs We
keep Butchers and Buyers posted the market Send for
prices before selling elsewhere.
Carroll S. Page Hyde Park, VT.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
No More Wiki

Captain Kidd strobe from the mod.
srn lumberyari with a volley OF angry
ooths and tight grip on his cusass.
POUNDS" he exclaimed 10 his lieuten-
ant "It's impossible for man TO
be a pirate in these extortionary times
One can't even afford a plank r
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
FERTlLIzlN6 YOUNG ORCHARD
4 -rfy Esssrt3si 20 OBTAIN ar1 Main
tsan ssroes Ri--ruue Grsusn
or Ncs1 Trees

Sree q = a1alu
sraag f1raus rlHs flf
tre GhIg e-ta a. u
fhem m fertile s all 70 u.e ai
possible neaas 70 ma.ufaln the fer
uuty %. Suitable de-ree Calner
cial fefIrers are Frrg se1lefaiit
81 q yoane o-ehsrt Hnl 30 many cas-
an hsrer fo Use ftan harnFard go
uure ~ ceFrr craIs. s.ues they Cannoi
provide barber foF mice
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
H8s s No.sd yst. Gets Rid Of Rats
Farmer. Heed.

~ Il Z Butler use RAT
SNAP around my hospitals every
tsee months whether see rats 90
not u does the work-RAT-S SNAP
gets Hem every sine 7 recommend
g 10 everybody hwnE rats D9nt
wait until there B. a brood e. rats
art Immediately yol see the FIRST one
Thre ze. So. &c sf25. sold ard
guaranteed b T. .. H@iey Manches-
ter Depot. VI Advertisemeut.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
Hyde Park, VT.
Wisdom lies In Correction.

1
Don't make too much OF the faults
and findings OF those around you; even
be good to yourself. and don't harry
your soul over your own blunders and
mIstakes.-Ada O. Sweet
Estate of MERRITT II. CULVER
Order Of Notice Guardians Applica-
ton TO Sell Real Estate.
State Of Vermont District OF
Manchester SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court, for
the District Aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the es-
tate Of Merritt II. Culver
GREETING:
WHEREAS, application in writing
hath been made to this Court by the
guardian OF Merritt H. Culver for
license TO sell the real estate Of said
ward, viz: Certain telephone rights
Of way to the N. T.. T. a. T. Co. over
part Of the real estate Of his said
ward, situated in the Town Of Dorset
along the Manchester Rutland State
highway, so-called, bounded Norther-
ly by one Reed; Easterly by the afore-
said Manchester Rutland State high
way; Southerly by one Bull and West
cry ny Oit bryant. NtDfthfHhlHK
that the sale thereof for the purpose
Of putting the proceeds of such sale
at interest, or investing the same in
stocks or other real estate, or using
the avails thereof for the benefit Of
said ward as the law directs would be
beneficial for said ward.
WHEREUPON, the said Court APP
pointed and assigned the 9th day Of
July, 1922, az the Probate Office in
Manchester in said District, 10 hear
and decide upon Sid application, and
ordered that public notice thereof 10
be given to all persons interested
therein, by publishing this order three
weeks successfully in the Manchester
Journal a newspaper published at
Manchester in said District, which cir
culatcs in the neighborhOod II those
persons interested therein: all which
publication shall be previous to the
time appointed for the hearing
THEREFORE, you are hereby noti-
fed 10 appear before said Court, az
the time and place aforesaid, then and
there in said Court, 10 object 20 the
granting Of such license. II you see
cause
Given Under Ny Hand az Manehes-
ter IN said District this 18th day Of
June, 1922
1913 EDWARD GRIFFITH. Judge.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22

Heavy, impure blood makes a mud
dy, pimply complexion, headaches,
nausea, Indigestion. Thin blood makes
you weak, pale and sickly For pure
blood, sound digestion, use Burdock
Blood Bitters. sl25 at all stores.
Advertisement.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
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touch &c. ltHfs rnss 80 Hll feed 80
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a-f size 90 . rakrf enough fsr
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fersu uuA auf-huf1diuEs. storage
bufIfiuG~. ~ farfarf tultdluas.
ssta usd ssnuTanf~sa ~
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22
ManCheSterInSuranCe Agency Inc.
(Suceessors FowIer's Insurance Agency
Established Over 20 Years.
x. GRIFFTTH.
Manchester, VT
J. w. FOWLER,
Manchester Depot, VT.
Established Over 10 Years.

Representing the following Oldest and largest fire, auto
burglary, fidelity and life insurance companies:
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-06-22

prepared BY the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
Heart Problems

Dear Mrs. Thompson: | am 26 years
old and | am in love with man "
wears my senior He wants rue to
marry him, but my mother Is bedrlG-
den and | have to stay with her.
consented to marriage if he would live
here with me, but ne will not do it.
I told him that would never be happy
if left my mother He said he would
make me happy if | married him, anr
that | would be sorry if | didn't. He
is a travelling man and he is to tale
q trip to England soon, and he wants
me TO accompany him and make il
our honeymoon I didn't know what
10 do. My mother says / should 20
and a neighbor woman will take care
of her, but | am afraid something will
happen to her while | am gone.
PUZZLED.
Your mother loves you more than
the man does. Hers is an unselflsh
love and for the sake of your happi-
ness she tells you to go and leave
her in the hands of some one else.
she only thinks of you and forgets
herself entirely so that she will nGJ
stand in your way
The man probably loves you In his
way, but its is small way because
he will not support you in your desire
to do the right thing.
If you never marry, you will feel
that your life has been blighted and
that you have been cheated. But if
YOU marry man who shows so little
heart. | am afraid you will regret
your decision bitterly and will be
haunted with the thought of your neg
iected duty.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
BURY HARMON FETTA
HERE WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for Harmon Fetta,
afternoon, at the home of his son. in
Indianapolis, will be held at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at the parlors
OF Klute & Smith, North Ninth street.
The Rev. ]. P. Miller will officiate.
Interment will be in Lutherania ceme-
terry. Friends may call at the parlors
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning.
Mr.. Fetta's wife died about three
weeks ago at the home 412 South
Fourth street. Since that time he had
been residing with his son in Indian
apolis. He had been in poor health
for several months.
Mr.. Fetta operated a cigar store for
years at the corner of Eighth street
and FIT, Wayne avenue. His store was
located on the ground now occupied
by the Standard Oil station. He re-
tired from active business when his
cigar store was removed to make way
for the station. He was grieved over
having to give up his business, al
though he was practically II years old
at that time. He made the round trip
from his home to the store three times
day, total distance of almost seven
miles. He traversed that distance in
all kinds of weather.
Opened Store at g.
Mr.. Fetta was born at 81 South
Fourth street, Nov. Z, 1S49. His edu-
cation was gained in the public
schools of Richmond At that time a
high school was unheard of, and Mr..
Fetta said he would rather work at
that time than go to school His early
youth was spent with his parents. Lat
er he worked in a Richmond cigar
company and when % years old, open
ed his store.
Two years later he married Anna NJ.
Schrage. Two boys were born. These
boys, Oliver C. c. Fetta and Martin
L. Fetta, were educated in the Uni
versity of Michigan. Both live at In
dianapolis.
only two times during his 43 years
of business was Mr.. Fetta robbed The
first time burglar made an unsuc-
cessful attempt, and the second time
a clerk took S4.35. Several men in
jured in the Pennsylvania tracks were
| taken into Fetta's store to await the
ambulance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
The Middle Ground
81 ST.. ia
BY MARION RU6JNcAm

10 1t. Going to pay off the mortgage
on the old home farm"
Amy froze up. The farm had no
mortgage to pay off-she could not
even do that! She could buy her
mother handsome clothes-and give.
her luxurious home where she would
NOT nave TO work or to worry
That idea cheered her.
She listened to the chubby girl sing
ing IN rehearsal. She had a voice of
angeHc purity and sweetness. and q
trick of raising her solemn brown
eyes and drawing her pale mouth to a
Wlstful droopiness that would take her
out of the chorus into real operate
roles some day. Amy knew her own
voice was not as good. But this girl
was intriguing with two men for q
chance to sing principal roles. and
would some day sing and trick hef
way to success.
Amy was marrying her way to sue
cess and thereby making herself en-.
Wed by her comrades.
She went home after rehearsal with
time to eat light supper and &C
back for the performance. Adams en-
was waiting to take her there and
back, Adam himself could not come
Poor Adam could not stand many
parties; he always took a day off C
recover
At home she found a small box with
her name on it. She opened it idly
another gift from Adam.
From the black velvet lining diam
ond ring actually burst upon her-tEe
only way to describe the flash of the
huge stone as it caught the light when
the bax was opened.
Her engagement ring, of course!
| She looked at it without any emotion
except surprise that diamond could
| be so large. There was the inevitable
note
This is the biggest I could find
Galavina wanted it, and | got it away
and have been saving it up for months
l will call at the opera house for you
So this was the very stone the great
singer, Galavina, had been trying tc
| buy! Amy slipped it on her finger
| it fit, of course, for Adam had hel
ring size. She still looked at it cur
iously and impersonally, she had seer
diamonds enough on the big singers
! only somehow, she had never quite
! believed them The stone to her was
| a great piece of glittering glass.
Then she remembered that Galayinf
had been talking of the number o.
| thousands this stone was to cost her
! And she, Amy Talbot, who Is
months before had been scrubbins
windows in a frame farmhouse, he
nails black, half moons from dirt!
water, was wearing a stone covete.
/ by one of the richest singers on thu
stagei
| She looked at it on her finger. 1
actually had no relation to her han
at all; it blaZed and flashed and almos
screamed aloud for attention, it stood
nigh above its platinum band, ant
Knocked her little covert cloth suit ant
ner wash waist.
| How vulgar of him, she comment
ed briefly to herself.
Of course Adam would buy the biz
gest diamond in the city!
| Her mother came to the door
My land she cried, surprised int
her old countryfied speech. DO yor
mean to say that's real diamond?'
Tomorrow-Dick Comes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
WANTS TO BE MOVING;
BOY is SENTENCED
TO REFORM SCHOOL

John Barker, Is years old, was COM
mitted to the Boys Industrial school
at Plaineld by the court Tuesday
morning, as an incorrigible. The boy
had been absent from school repeated
ly and had proved himself incapable of
accepting orders.
Some place to go" was Johns chief
aim in life, according to the history
of the case as reviewed by the court
Tuesday morning. John had been in
school here up to about two weeks
ago when he took trip to Virginia,
making his own way with some COM
panions. He had no intention of re-
turning to this city at the time, he
said, but he ran out of money and had
TO come back. I'VE were arrested
two or three times" he told the court.
Has Every Chance
John, you have had every chance
on EARTH said Judge Bond in passing
sentence Tuesday morning. 1T is I'M
fortunate that you have a rowing dis
position and cannot stay in school.
The court feels that it is to your best
interest that you be confined in the
boys school. There YOU will learn
obedience. | do not know how strin-
gent they are in that school, but if
you obey orders you may not have to
stay there long. | think you see the
error of your ways now, but you for
get and go wrong before YOU think -
John LETT the court room smiling.
sometime before he had told the
court, when informed that he was to
De sent to the school, that it would
be another place to go"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
PLANT IS Permitted
TO RE0RCANIzE FUNDS

Authority has been issued the Rich
mond Light, Heat and Power company
to reorganize its finances by issuance
and sale of certain bonds. according
to an order from the public service
commission. The company has been
authorized to issue the following
bonds and securities:
First mortgage five per cent bonds,
$211, ZOO; seven per cent cumulative
preferred stock, 100000.
The latter stock, according to the
ORDER will be used to retire part OF
the outstanding obligations and tenn
porary eight per cent notes are to be
issued pending the sale of the bonds.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21

In the plant, according to an article
appear in the publication.
Working days lost in 1918 were 253
as compared with So in 1921 accord
ing to the report. Among the causes
OF accidents given in the booklet are
Iaking chance, horse-play, inatten-
tlon, didn't think, and numerous
others.
Lost time accidents in six months of
l5zO and II amounted to a total of IL
whlle in the whole year of 1921 they
,otalled only 10. In the year 1911
iost time cases numbered 81. Six
hundred and nine days working time
We're lost in the year 1911 as COM
pared with 1913 in 1921.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
HARVESTER WORKS
ORGAN URGES SAFETY

The Sower," a special publication
put out by the works council of the
Richmond Works. International Har-
rnster company, is now off the press.
The current issue is devoted almost
exclusively to safety first ideas as ap-
piled to the local plant.
Use of congress shoes in the foun-
dry and strick observance of other
sofety rules in departments are re-
sponsible for decrease in accidents
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
EGGS DROP AT KANSAS CITY.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 21.-
Wholesale prices on eggs dropped 4
cents a dozen here yesterday. Dealers
were paying % cents a dozen for TO
days arrivals of first eggs. which were
estimated at 1000 cases. Selected
case lots were wholesaling at 20 cents
dozen. The prices were the lowest
of the season and cents lower than
a year ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
ORIGINAL "4e'ER' DIES.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Feb. 21.-
Mrs. Eliza P. Bonner Houghton, one
OF the last survivors of the Bonner
party, many of whose members starv-
ed to death while on their way across
the plains to California, rs years ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
Helps
digestion
and cleans a
coated tongue

Thousands of men and women
have found relief from various
digestive disturbances by eating
Fleischmann's Yeast.
1t is human nature to want to
find out why" So far as science
can tell US this is the reason:
Fleischmann's Yeast is a food
abundant in certain elements
which are necessary to health and
life itself. 1t promotes the flow Of
bile and of pancreatic juice. 1t has
a remarkably beneficial effect on
the whole digestive process. 1t
cleans coated tongue.
Try Fieischmann's fresh yeast
in orange juice or in milk. Men
like it in milk shakes and matted
milks. Women like it spread on
bread or crackers.
Keep your digestion in the pink
Of condition and yourtongue clean
and healthy by eating 2 or cakes
of FIeischmann's Yeast fresh
every day before or between meals.
Be sure it's Fleischmann's Yeast
the familiar tin-foil package with
the yellow label Place a standing
order with your grocer today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21

Twot thirds of Canada's forests have
been destroyed by fire in 70 years. AZ
the present rate of consumption the
amount of timber burned would have.
supplied the entire world for $50 years
and represents loss of billion dol
lars
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21

Among the supplies in a great Allan
TIC liner for one voyage there some
tlmes are 10000 pounds of meat. so
IONS OF potatoes and 5000 pounds of
butter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21

died at her home here, 7s years old
Mrs. Houghton was the daughter of
Captain George Bonner.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21

NJ. Mckinley, Alaska, area 100000
acres, contains the Hottest mountain
summit in America, 10000 feet above
sea level.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
THE RING.
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.


Amy Talbot has been overworked
for so many years that she has gotten
completely out of touch with life and
new ideas. She finds this out when
her son Luther returns TO the farm
with his newly married wife, Claire,
and when Jane, her daughter. comes
home from college. She cannot under
stand their new ideas, and finds them
making Amy, the youngest. discomfort
ed. Claire and Luther quarrel; Claire
goes back 10 the city. taking Amy with
her. Eventually Jane and Luther go
away
Mrs. Talbot is so worried about her
girls that she braves her husband 5
anger and goes to them in the city.
Amy is studying for grand opera, and
will not look at the always-faithfu'
Dick; Jane is in love with a doctor too
poor to marry her. Everything in the
city shocks and terrifies the mother
Luther and Claire are separated
Claire wants a divorce. Amy's pretti-
ness attracts scores of admirers-she
threatens to marry rich man she
does not love Jane is on the point of
going away with the doctor, who does
not want to marry her. There is TO
sympathy between the strict and mar
row ideas of the mother and the broad,
but what she calls ''loose" ideas of the
children.
Then the doctor finds post in a
South American mining camp, and can
afford to marry. He and Jane elope
and go to South America. Luther mas
a note from Claire. Amy's engage
nent to Adam Arnold. rich and more
than twice her age, is announced.
Chapted 81.
The news of Amy's engagement Sot
about. of course. That very day wneA
she went to rehearsal the dressing
room buzZed with it
Amy tried to avoid talking OF It,
strange to say.
How did you hear all that? she
countered, when a dozen questions
came at her, asking her if it was true
she was ito marry the richest man
in New York
A chubby little brown haired girl
told her.
my roommate is a friend OF mail
named THOMPSON. and he's press
agent for the Tweedle Sisters. Ihey
told him" 1t seemed to have come
direct from an authoritative source.
why not admit it? ID adVer.ist
The fact all over town. the chubby
Girl went on. She looked like the most
demure little mouse; she had peeh !
school teacher and Sunday schooI
worker; she sang now in pig clty
choir for extra money, and she had
The reputation of being one OF lhe
"swiftest'' girls in the city
Il want to keep it quiet Tor tiin5'
AMY said, hoping that would end the
discussion.
"All right. we won't tell. But as
long as we know it, give us the ae'
tails.
Detailsi Amy saw them III iiash
The details were that she had fhrteu
outra geously. violated every prlnclpie
Che once held as feminine dignity ana
aloofness. broken Dicks heart, mace
her mother miserable and lost ne.
brothers respect. to say nothlns u
her own good opinion of hersen'
You don't look like the Joyful niue
bride-to-be.' the chubby girl comment ,
ed Never mind, you Will get use"