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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05
HOME DEMONSTRATION MEET
INGS IN THE COUNTY

Thursday of this week the home
demonstration agent will be at Cam
bridge to conduct millinery "bee."
All those who wish to have hats reno
waited or wish to make gingham hats
or hats to match summer dresses,
please bring materials. The agent
will have frames, braids, etc.
Friday of this week the home dem
onstration agent will be in Eden Cor
ners to hold a salads demonstration,
which it was impossible to hold in
March.
Monday, April 10, the home demon
stration agent will hold second mil
linery "bee" at Stowe. This is to
take the place of the regular day in
April, as the women were anxious to
finish their hats. Others who were
not there Friday will be welcome to
come and start hats on Monday of
next week.
Tuesday, April II, the home dem
onstration agent will be in Hyde
Park at the home of Mrs. Elliott to
start work on the clothing project.
This meeting will consist of method
of taking measurements, alteration of
patterns, and the cutting of mater
ials. All those who are planning to
bring garments please bring your
materials and pattern.
Wednesday, April IL, Miss Lydia
M. Potter, state home demonstration
leader, will be in Lamoille county at
the Farm Bureau office for a confer
ence with the home demonstration
agent. In the afternoon at two
o'clock, Miss Potter and Miss Tru-
man would like to meet all of the
county and community project lead
ers at the Farm Bureau office. Every
leader plan to be present if possible
as an interesting meeting is being
planned.
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PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS
MEETING
Hyde Park, VT, April 7
10:00-3:00 o'clock

Topic for meeting; Reading in
Primary Grades and Reading in all
the Grades"
1. Some Uses of Tests. Results
of Reading Tests in Hyde Park,
Supt. r. d. McAlister
II. Demonstration of how to teach
music to lower grades. A program
you can use in music. Miss Beryl
Powell, supervisor of music in Hyde
Park and Johnson. \
III. How to use games and folk
dancing to good advantage in the
lower grades. Miss Burgess, Johnson
Training School
Lunch served by the domestic
science department of L. G. A.
". Two demonstrations of pri-
mary reading: (1) Teaching class
prepared; (2) Teaching class not pre-
pared. Mrs. Mary Tyndall-Finnigan
primary, Hyde Park village.
V. Papers on subject of Teaching
Reading. Mrs. Griswold, North Hyde
Park, primary; Mrs. McAllister
North Hyde Park, grammar; Miss
Martha Tyndall, Hyde Park; Miss
D. Collins, Doty.
vi. General discussion of reading
VII. Address, "Some Problems Of
Reading l Have Met" Miss Rather.
inc Aagerson, state supervisor
teacher training.
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HYDE PARK

Tracy Badger was a visitor in Bur-
lington over Sunday.
The annual village meeting will be
held Tuesday evening, April IL.
Miss Eleanor Black returned to her
school in st. Johnsbury Monday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noyes Stevens and
daughter returned to Florence Mon
day morning.
Herbert Rooney was called to East
Fairfield Saturday night by the
death Of his uncle, Abe Rooney.
A. B. Pease has recovered from
his recent illness and has resumed
his position with the News & Citizen.
The Ladies Aid will meet at the
home of Mrs. j. I. Stevens this week
Thursday at 2:30 p. m. The annual
election of officers will take place.
Mrs. Noyes Wood was in Burling-
ton Monday. She was accompanied
home by her daughter from Benning-
ton.
Everett Hebb has the scarlet fever
at the home of ]. Q. Perry. Fred Mil
Ter is delivering milk at present for
Mr.. Perry.
The Misses Selma Strong, Cora
Fairbanks and Gertrude Finnegan of
the U. V. NJ, are spending their
Easter vacation with their parents.
Mrs. Hugh Scofield is visiting her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Nora Scofield.
She expects to join her husband in
Boston soon, where he has gone to
take new position.
Dates for the Community Chau-
tauqua will be July "a to 81. Bigger
and better program, including the
Junior Chautauqua, Let's all get be-
hind and push this to a success. 1t
can be done and it is up to you to
help.
r. w. Hulburd went to the Mary
Fletcher hospital Thursday morning
for an operation for appendicitis. He
was operated on the same day. He,
was accompanied by his son, Benja-
min, and his wife went down Thurs
day night. Latest reports are that
he is improving nicely.
The people of this town were sur
prised to hear that Mrs. L. L.
Stearns, formerly Mae Jackson of this
place, shot and killed her husband at
their home in Bellows Falls. Mr..
Stearns formerly conducted a cream
cry in the house now occupied by
Frank Nichols. Mrs. Stearns was
well known in the town and was a
graduate of L. c. A.
The annual meeting of the Home
Culture Club to elect officers was held
at the library Wednesday evening Of
last week. The following officers
were. elected: President, Miss Mar
iorie Hulburd; vice president, Mrs.
blanche Collins. recording secretary,
Mrs. Delta Mcfarland; corresponding
secretary. Miss Natalie Noyes; treas
urer. Mrs. Mary Drew. Mrs. Halle
Page and Mrs. Nora Scofield we're
elected delegates to the State Fed
Grafton meeting at Springfield in
June. The club voted to help on the
expenses of two students at some
teacher-training school in the state.
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occupied the office of the late Gov
ernor Hendee while the latter was in
Congress. In 1872 he was elected
states attorney of Lamoille county.
In 1880 he was elected county COM
missioner, >and received two success
sive biennial terms. He had repre-
sented fire insurance companies and
had given special and successful
attention to collections and securing
pensions.
Mr.. Niles had been trial justice
since 1891, was town grand juror
and president of the village corpora
ton. He was secretary of the
Lamoille County Fair Ground Com
pany for % years and for AZ years
had been secretary and collector of
the board of trustees of Peoples
Academy and had held other clerical
positions. He served as village presi-
dent, trustee and clerk of the board.
He had been a steward and secretary
of the Puffer Methodist Episcopal
Church since 1873, and for years had
been superintendent and secretary of
the Sunday School.
Mr.. Niles had served as town clerk
and treasurer and village clerk for
1S years.. resigning in 1918 on account
of failing health.
His record for accuracy and integ-
rity was an open book.
For nine years he was commander
of James NJ. Warner Post, G. A. R.,
and in 1893 and 1903 he was adjutant
general Of the Department of YER
mont, G. A. r. He also was depart
ment commander of the state in 1912.
Mr. Niles was united in marriage
to Clara NJ. Bradley Of Johnson in
1872, who, with two daughters, Mrs.
Lula Spaulding Of Boston and Mrs.
J. Frank Jackson of this village, and
a son, Logan Niles, also Of Boston,
survive.
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LOO AL NE w S
MORRISVILLE

o. M. Waterman is a business
visitor in Boston and New York.
Reginald Stancliff of the U. V. M.
is home for the Easter vacation.
Miss Alice Heminway of Johnson
visited Mrs. Carrie Barrows Mon
day.
Mrs. C. B. Kramer visited at the
home of L. H. Noyes in Hyde Park
Tuesday.
Miss Jean Pinhey of Montpelier
has been spending several days with
friends in town.
F. Ovitt of Enosburg Falls was a
business visitor in town over Mon
day night and Tuesday.
The Morrisville Band will give a
concert and dance at the town hall
Tuesday night, April 18.
Mrs. H. A. Durfee of Winooski is
spending several days at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. C. d. Howe.
The Misses Hilda Isham and Faith
Edmunds have been spending several
days at the George Young home in
Johnson.
Miss Ethel Mcdonald of Boston is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Sweetser and Mr.. and Mrs.
L. D. Bliss.
Mrs. Lula Spaulding and Logan
Niles of Boston were called here
Monday by the death of their father,
A. A. Niles.
Mrs. Alice Rogers of Burlington is
spending several days at the home
of her brother, A. C. Aiken, of
Summer street.
Mrs. w. G. Baker and grand
daughter, Mary Hurley, spent a part
of last week at the home of H. B.
Hill at Cambridge Junction.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Stearns and
Miss Elizabeth Barrows were in
Johnson Sunday to attend the
funeral of Lynn Stearns, who died at
Bellows Falls Thursday.
The Semper Fidelis Glass of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will
hold a food sale at the Economy
Store next Saturday, April 8, at
three o'clock.
A large circle of friends in this
vicinity will read with sorrow of the
death on Sunday of Miss Gertrude
Davis, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
E. M. Davis of Hardwick, formerly
of this place. An obituary will ap-
pear in this paper next week. Funeral
services will be held this afternoon
from the Methodist Church at Hard
wick.
A social event which was most
thoroughly enjoyed by "a young peo-
ple~was barn dance given by Wal
ter Sargent, Jr., on Saturday eve
ming. The spacious barn was prettily
decorated in the national colors anC
the young people were chaperoned by
Mrs. w. M. Sargent, Mrs. A. j. Val.
leau and Mrs. R. G. Wallace. Dainty
refreshments were served.
Domenico Bevilotti, the former
proprietor of the Morrisville Fruit
Store, left Saturday night via Bur.
! lington and New York for his ole
home in Fornorso Taro, Italy, to be
away a year. He desired the Mes.
senger to express his sincere thanks
to the people of this town and vicin.
ity for the fine business they gave
him during all the years he liveC
among them. He would like to show
his appreciation in substantial way
by doing them any favors in his
power during his sojourn in his native
land.
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COUNTY EXHIBIT

LamOille County Exhibit at State
Teachers Convention at st. Johns
bury.
Lamoille county is to have an ex-
hibit at the state teachers convention
at st. Johnsbury next October. The
school children in the county are pre-
pairing a geography project on the
subject of Asbestos" Asbestos min
ing is growing county industry and
is little known in the state at large.
The mines are located in Eden. Fur
ther details of this project will be
announced later.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05
PLEASANT VIEW CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting of Pleasant
View Cemetery Association will be
held at the town clerks office Tues
day evening, April II, at seven
o'clock.
Officers for 1922 will be elected and
matters of Importance presented for
discussion. At this time dues may be
paid for the coming year and any un-
paid dues can be handed to the fnan-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05
T am in the Wall Paper

I am in the Wall Paper
field, with 1922 books. Call
on me to show you the latest
patterns these are guaranteed
to be shaded true to sample
Prices are lower. Labor is
lower. My price reduced from
'75c last year to 60c per hour
this year.
Send me a card and | will
call.
G. M Bridge
Paper Hanger and Decorator
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05
REAL BUSINESS oPPoRTUN-

A REAL BUSINESS OPPORTUN-
ITY! We are looking for live, wide
awake men and women to handle
country trade for the genuine and
onioinal J. R. Watkins products
Established 1868; nationally known
and nationally advertised. Our propo-
sition is superior from every angie
we will be glad to tell you why
Write today for free sample and ex,
elusive territory; first come tlrst
served. J. r. WATKINS CO.. Dept
rs, New York, N. Y. pd'4'zo
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05

WAN rED-|Ierks Young men, WON
en-, over IT, desiring goverume posi-
tions $l25 monthly, write tor tree list O
positions, now oper.
j. Leonard CORNER Civil Service exam'n-
Washington, b /.
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BIG SNOW STORM

April first witnessed the heaviest
snow fall of the entire winter. Off
cial reports give it as about two feet
1t melted as it fell, as the ground
was not frozen, but in the woods
where the old snow had not melted
it was fully two feet.
A big run of sap followed the
storm and it is still good sugar
weather.
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Cut Prices on Tires

Every auto owner should read the
Lakeside Garage ad on page and
Law in a stock of tires, tubes, etc,
now while the buying is good.-Ad-
Yertisement.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05

GRADE COLLIE PUPS for sale.
Price $3.50. E. C. PAGE, North
Hvde Park. Tel. 9-3, Johnson. Al.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05

GALVANIZED ROOFING
Large stock to select from: Right
orices. STRONG HDWE CO., Bur-
tinpton. Vt.-Advertisement.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-04-05

FOR SALE-One pair of gray
horses for sale, six and seven years
old; will sell cheap for cash. GEO. W
ALLEN, R. R. l, Hyde Park, Vt.
Telephone 13-A, Johnson. pd,4-5
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TREES

TREES
100000 spruce and pine trans
plants for sale at cost to Vermonters'
Get price list from your Forestry
Department, Montpelier, vt. 4-19
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BUSINESS NOTICES
TO RENT-Tenement on Park st.
H. WAITE & SON Morrisville.

SURVEYING-10 years experience
Box 81. D. C. PAGE, Johnson, Vt.
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FOR SALE-Bay mare, one nine
wears old, weighing 1000 pounds; one
seven years old, weighing $50 pounds;
both good workers and drivers; will
be sold separately if desired. R. S.
PAGE, Hyde Park, Vt. 4-b
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CASH PAID-Highest Cash Price
Paid for Calves, Cheap Cows, Bulls
and Hogs.
Tel124-31 JOHN MINER, Hyde Park
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NO MARKET FOR RARE
LIQUORS IN FRANCE

Paris.-(Ry the Associated, Press.)
Wine Is the milk Of the old man."
say the Fronch, and wine stlll ia
drunk as extensively as aver by the old
and young. But. It ID ordinary cheap
wine, the fine vintages Of Bordeau,
Burgundy and Champagne are not
selling. Never has trade In Thorn been
in such a desperate condition. The
cellars Of the merchants IRE crammed
and asheach crops comes in, the
dearth OF spnce becomes more, and
more acute.
No ono wants the 1ne wine, for the
French government, according to the
growers, has killed the home demand
by imposing q luxury tax, while
abroad-the United States is dry,
South America has stopped import
Ing Russia cannot buy, nor "a Ger
many. The countries which used to
1hrorh a. third Of French wine have
CLOSED their markets, while to increase
the sad condition Of the trade tho cost
of production has been multiplied
four-fold.
. AGnovel application of wind power
to propel a boat startled the NOM
bers of the Trench Academy of Sci
last week. It made some Of the
more conservative ones doubt their
eyes when they saw motion pictures
OF a bout, without sails and without q
fuel consuming.
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HAPSBURC HOLDINGS
BEING LlQUIDATED

u. VI, Lt.. --.-T .l- -Hs - - ~ -
Vienna.-Ths liquidation Of the vast
Hapsburg holdings in Austria. with
the exception OF the possessions con
sldered private, VIII be completed
shortly, andS the final report is ex-
pected to show the disposal of prop
critics valued at many milliards OF
crowns. Most Of the funds realized
through the sale and the leasing OF
former court buildings will be used
for the benent OF war invalids.
Tho large reduction In territory
now under the government OF Austria
has greatly diminished the amount OF
space required for administration
purposes, and many blocks Of Office
buildings have been rented to private
individuals
The possessions considered as priv.
ate have been reduced to this mini.
mum. Many personal presents made
to former Emperor Francis Joseph
Empress Elizabeth and the late EN-.
psror Karl by foreign monArchs
Austrian citles and communities were
included in the sale. A large mum.
Der OF costly vases. clocks, pictures
and china: tho cxar's present Of
magnificent tables and vases of lapi.
lasuN and works Of art presented b,
the emperor Of China and Japan were
among the objects sold to foreigners
particularly Italians, who paid larry
amounts for their purchases.
The old and new court palaces, thu
court stables and a number OF famo6,
castles, villas and estates in the prov
inces were the principal building,
sold.
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Weekly Tidings
- FromJthe -
NJ u 5 &c w Oh 1 d,
DR.. Sigmund Spacth of New
York, who will prepare this week.

.1O3kV VINO WI 0SRUEO C1uo "ocK
ly feature, is q Well.knoWn writ.
er and. lecturer ON musical SUBJ
jcoes. He WINS for many years the
author OF musical comment In
the Boston TRANSCRIPT, the New
York Times and the New York
Evening Mail.
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FOURTH NsrALLMENT.

The year 1872 was q hard one in
tho valley, yet the people already here
were not particularly affected by it
for the reason that the business being
done and the a%vocations they follow
ed WERE, as yet, based upon agricul-
ture. Thore was, as yet, scarcely any
attempts to cultivate the land west Of
Red river, and in Grand Forks county
IT. agricultural Development did not
fairly set in until toward the end Of
the decade. Here the principal was
the lack Of railroad. facilities in this
part OF the valley. In regard to eli
matte conditions in 1872. John KHAN,
a forner hotel keeper atGrand Forks,
wrote in 1896:
This year 1872 was a dry year: not
a drop Of rain fell from tho nrs. Of
May until snow fell the first Of No.
ve:nber. The grass grew about an inch
long. You could not get a ton of hay
all over this country, outside the river
bottoms. The first OF August veseta-
tton was dried brown. not a green
spear III sight. The first OF September
a fire swept this country and 1t was
black from n end to the other. That
summer Gen. Hazen was sent out by
the government to examine into and
report on the RESOURCES OF this coun-
try. He reported 1t a barren waste,
# only for Indians ana buffalo.
There has been a great deal OF criti-
cism in later years on General Haz-
ems of1c!al report by the press and
otherwise. Eut any mar that would
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stopped there for some time. This
was probably during the boating lei

stopped there Tor come time. This
was probably during the boating sea
son Of 1872. n q
AS early as the susnmer Of 1912 an
effort wasfmade to establish a school
in the settlement. As has often hap
pened In regard to school troubles, two
rival factions developed. %dispIting
over the location OF the proposed
schoolhouse. This controversy was
carried no far that two small schools
were kept that season, n in charge
Of Miss Blandtng in a shack near the
stage station. and the other was kept
by Geo. Ames tn the vicinity of the
site whore the Great Northern depot
now stands. \
During that year the st. Paul & Pa
ctfc Railroad company built a line
down the Minnesota side of the valley.
starting from Glyndon. ten miles east
of Moorhead, the track being laid to
the vicinity OF where Warren is now
located. Nothing more was donc to
extend this line toward Winnipeg for
about six years. but Crookston was
started where 1t crossed Red Lake
river. The line was not much opecat-
ed, but this place being within -
miles OF Grand Forks, 1t finally began
to exert come influence or the last
named place In respect to the trans
portatin Of passengers and freight.
Although the ear 1872 was a dry
one. transportation and travel devel-
oped to a larger extent than before.
Another steamer called the Dakota,
owned by Norman w. Ki:tson Of the
Hudson Bay company. was placed on
the river for general traffic. Flat
boating was still in progress and there
was much teamlng done by wagon
and cart. There was considerable
travel to Manitoba. more by CONNER
cial and military classeS than Of those
intending to settle. on farms. AZ the
hosts were unable to ascend the river
above no Goose rapids Oh account uf
low water. Frog Point was made tho
up-river terminal for tho steamers. TO
which place there was a great deal Of
fretghtinE done that summer and fall.
These matters and conditions at
Grand Forks produced 4 correspond
ing phase Of frontier life nj the valley,
destined to be Of transient duration.
Speaking OF Grand Forks. Winship
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EARLY HIS g RY
of GRAND FORKS

Editors Note.-Ths following let
ter. which Is sslfsexplauatoSy. has
been received by Tho Herald from H.
v. Arnold. writer OF the hiftoryf which
Is being puhlished weekly IN The Her
aid:
>Larimore; n. D.. Nov. 20. 1922.
Editor Herald:F ri
My attention has been called to the
third installment ofS...The .Early His
tory Of Grand Forks" taken from q
booklet I printed insl91e. I do not
always see the Monday issues Of The
Herald. 80 that the f,rst two Install
men:s escaped BY attention, or
would have made q csrtain correc-
ton before. The Introduction Of pre-
me as the late Mr.. Arnold" I an,
still Hving and active II the age OF
"a: You have been misinformed In
regard to the superstition that I am
no longer living.
The Herald is perfectly welcome
to give publication to Any part Of the
pamphlet mentioned that may seem
desirable, since thereby q wider cir
'culation will ba given its contents
which hitherto has been rather lim-
tied. only small editions Of my work
VAAAlCu. Ny AlS OoAA6 Ao6A0Os uou0AAy
between forty and pity copies. The
work. under confederation was not
printed al the Pioneer ONCE. neither
was It put In type there. I have a
limited private&soutnt OF my own a,
my house here in Larimore and the
press used was improvfsed out Of q
common copy-press, with metal and
wG6den attachments to make It avail.
able for printing pun poses.
Only one, page IAN be struck OF a
an impression on .four-paged sheets
folded. the two leaves SO made being
turned as required for succeeding
pages. I also dostha binding Of tn
books in paper covers. Each pag'
fairly represents a. days work.
The principal object, besides pre-
serving facts Of local history, ma!
say. ia to ward OF stagnation, To-
which the old-fashionsd method o
printing Is an admirable %antidote.
Aside from printed quoted matter
no copy was used In getting up tn
book. I set type from, the mind, us
person often uses a typewriter.
- Respectfully,
,(Signed) H. V. Arnold.
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travel over this country in the sum-
mer OF 1874 and make any other re-
port would BIO void Of Ordinary 3udg-
ment. This report was sent, broad
cast all over the United States, and
It took years 81 sxcessts advertising
to counterfeit It."
With the Northern Pacific at Moor
head and also in progress toward
TO obtain pine lumber and other build
ing materials at Grand Forks, as
brought down the river on hArSes at
tached to the sides OF the Selkirk.
which vas q STERN wheeled boat. A
little building was done at Grand
Forks h . year.. structure being
a small. hotel on Third street about
one hundred feet north Of Division
avenue. and build by Il. B.IAndrus.
Most Of the buildings ere scattered
oN'Third street, between DeMera ave-
In those times there were no streets
and avenues In the village. only what
was being determined by the stage
road and transient local wagon trails.
UP at tho stage station q few shacks
and a b~lackened blacksmith shop be-
gan to cluster In the vicinity Of that
hotel.
rev. -. n. Elmer was a Preabytert-
an clergyman who established himself
at Noorhead October. 1874. He FIRST
visited, Grand Forks the next winter,
driving down the stage road in q
home made jumper. and stopped over
night at the stage station on
Frog Point. On Sunday. February II,
1879, he preached in Captain Gr:gRs
house to a number Of people who
gathered there. This was the first
religious service held in the settle.
mont. There is a tradition that q
clergyman on his way to Manitoba
preached from the Selkirk to an as
sembla9e gathered on shore at the
landing one Sunday while the boat