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S PUBLIC SPIRIT." "'« Forty-Third Year Ayer, Mass., Saturday, July 15, 19U. No. 44. Price Four Cents HOLLIS, N. H. structed travel for several hours the next day. Telephone poles and wires lfews Items. were laid low; and it took the men The hot wave has caused quite a nearly the whole of the next day to large number of Hollis horses to suc­ repair them. One large tree was cumb, some of them requiring the struck and laid across the highway services of a veterinary. Just below Andrew. Jewett's at South er - Hollis. Three houses at South Hol­ William Woodin, who attended a lis felt the slight shocks from the business college in Boston during the lightning. "Winter, has secured a position In the he^^fe^ ~.e. o, his feet to the top of bis' gymnasium of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union for the sum­ Telephone. Change*. mer. Ayer—William A. Wright, residence. changed-to 136-12; W. Wright & Son. V Sererc Storm. * changed to 26-12. A Hart, Schaffner & Marx On Thursday afternoon, July 6, Groton—William H. Whljehlll. 6S-4., Hollis was visited by a severe thun­ Townsend—B. A. Nutting, changed to der shower which, did considerable damage. The storm was worse in the AUCTIONS. . center,^north and east parts of the Otis H. Forbush, auctioneer, will sell Nothing but the latest and best. town. The.church was struck, tear­ by public auction on Saturday. July ing boards off in several places. 15. at nine o'clock a. m.. fifteen cows Across. the street the lightning en­ and heifers at the farm of R. Y. Nel­ tered the. store of Matthew Jameson, son, Boxborough. ' On Saturday. July 15, at one o'clock shattering both show cases Complete­ P'I.P*" ,Ws!1Hanl A- Deland, auctioneer, Opposite Depot ly and'destroying part of the contents. will sell by public auction the personal Beyond Silver lake, an Immense tree property and all the standing grass at the residence of the late William was completely shattered and ob­ It. Neat, Mulpus road, Shirlev. Wedose Thursday Afterr-^ons^^. Remember-Commencing July 6, until Sept. 2 1 '

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Men's and Boys' Wearing Apparel ' of every kind suit­ Model 21 Buick, $1500.00 ; able for the hot The easiest thing in town, Model 21 Buick, weather will be In every demonstration I have given this year, found here and in plenty. Wheth­ remarks have been made about how very easy er going on a vacation or staying at riding it was, also how very still and flexible, home you will find here the many •*£»* and what power it had on hills. Am averaging things you need to insure your eighteen miles on a gallon of gasoline with five summer comfort. Here are some suggestions passengers, Demonstrated^to—a -- party Jrr that may interest you :

tBOTE-SEEGirSUITS-Go0d:B!„e Serge Suits for^ren and BoysV' always^ good tastt "'-well "'" ~ Townsend, who said he would not buy a car made and perfect fitting, ' that could not climb the hill from West Town- Prices, $10.00, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 send to Ashby on high speed. He had demon­ OUTING TROUSERS-Cool and comfortable, made -with belt loops and turn-up bottoms, strations in six or eight cars, and bought a Prices, $1.98, ?2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and ?4v00 STRAW HATS—Straw Hats of every kind for Men, Boys and Children/Splendid values. Buick. Prices, Men's—25^, 50£, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $3 00 Children's—10^, 25£, 50£ and $1.0O Call and find out about AJAX TIRES, guar­ <4 anteed for 5000 miles. If they do not stand PANAMA HATS—A fine assortment in many different shapes and styles, , Prices, $3.00, $5.00, $6.00 and: $7.5,0-<. J».SS5"4 up, I do the adjusting. SUMMER SHIRTS—Every style of Shirts for summer wear. Coat Shirts, Negligee Shirts and , '"*' Soft Collar Shirts. A big variety of patterns. Special values in best makes. Prices, 50£, $1.00 and $1.50. Boys'—45^ For Sale—Two Motorcycles AUTO DUSTERS—A good assortment and many styles. Prices, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $4.00 THIN COATS—Thin Coats in Sateen, Alpaca and Serge. i • *<3 E. O. PROCTOR, Ayer, Mass. Prices, 50£, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00 and $4.00 Agent for Acton, Ayer, Ashby, Townsend, Harvard, Groton, Shirley, Littleton and Pepperell THIN UNDERWEAR_In Halbn-an. Porosknit. Xainsook, Jersey and D. and B In Union Suits or in the two-pier.- styl,-. A splendid assortment and splendid values. DUNSTABLE. Prices, Men's Shirts and Drawers—25£ and 50«£ "each The Spring of the Year .News Items. Boys' Shirts and Drapers—25£ each Miss O'Herroii. sent out by the tree Men's Union Suits—69^, $1.00 and $1.50 public library commission, is nt work Finds Us in Stock on the Fol­ | at the library, cataloguing and intro­ Boys' Union Suits—50£ and 75< ducing a new charging -system. Sho is assisted by the librarian and a num­ CLOTH HATS-Cloth Ilats' f,.r Men. Roys and Children-eool and comfortable lowing Goods ber of the young people. -Mrs. Helen Leighton and daughter Prices, Men's 25£ and 50£. Children's—25<* and 50* Swift's Animal Fertilizers Frances aro visiting at George Butter- field's. Chemicals and Land Limes Mr. Brownell of Oriole college. Ox­ HAMMOCKS—Many beautiful designs and colorings. . Lime and Sulphur Solution for Spraying ford, is at Mr. Menut's. His travels havo not led him to experience any­ Prices, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 Arsenate of Lead for Spraying thing like the present hot wave, oven in China, where he taught for two Myer's Barrel Spray Pumps years. Mr. Brownell holds a Rhodes SUMMER OXFORDS—Oxfords "for Men and Boys. Oxfords for Women and Children. Ox­ scholarship and will return to England fords in many kinds of leather and many style's of cut. All the leading styles. Chick Feeds,' Water Founts, Mash Hoppers and Lullaby Brooders,' to continue his studies. Grass Seed, Seed Corns, Seed Oats, Seed Barley, Seed. Bye Tho drought Is exceedingly severe Prices, Men's Oxfords—$2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.0)0 as. none of the showers seem to touch Boys'. Oxfords—$1.15, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00- *• this town. ' Women's Oxfords—$1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $5.00 and $3.50 Items of Interest Ohildren,'s Oxfords—$1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 " ' A full line of White Mountain Seeds, 99 percent purity, especial­ Dean Swift, having been solicited to ly White Mountain Seed Oats, 97 percent germination, guaranteed preach a charity sermon, mounted thc pulpit, and after announcing his text, the cheapest and best Oats to sow for a crop. •'He that glvcth to the poor lendeth to Here is a List of still Other Summer and Vacation Needs the Lord," simply said, "Now myMen' s Khaki Trousers .... $1.00 and $1.50 Also, a full line of Grain, Flour, Feed Stuffs, Hay and Straw. brethren, if you are satisfied with the Men's Bathing Suits 50^ to $3.00 security, down with the dust." He Boys' KhaM Trousers... 50£, 75^ and $1.00 Boys' Bathing Suits. , 50£ and $1.00;7 then took his seat, and there was an Summer Neckwear 15£ to 50£ unusually large collection. Boys' Bathing Trunks 15£ "to BOf^W'' An unclaimed Island has been dis­ Children's Wash Suits 7 50£ to $1.50 Men's and Boys' Belts 25£ and 5©£" Don't Forget the Price of Coal Went Down April 1 covered In the Mississippi river. The Boys' Khaki Suits 50£ to $1.50 Island Is charted officially on the rec­ Men's and Boys' baps 25< tad^dV ords of the government surveys as Children's Rompers :. 50£ to $1.00 Barefoot Sandals.: 7* 75f' to '$l.'t50 Island No. 23 and la located In Charl­ Matting Dress Suit Cases.. .,$1.25 to $3.00 ton county, Mo. The Island was occu­ Tennis Oxfords for Children... 50< to $1.00 pied in 1885, by a man named John Im. Leather Dress Suit Cases . 90< to $2.50 Tennis Oxfords, for Men and Boys, A. E. LAWRENCE & SON Randolph, but he abandoned it because tbe high water had Inundated his corn­ ';eo#e««$i.25 Telephone 7 AYER, MASS. fields. IMPORTANT NOTICE—This store will dose ivery Thursday'at 12 oclock BD$n frW*^•;> w>"». n***}* EtSferifesl i"M % -;WWW^y^W^WW^ i .. < OJTE DOLLAR AND FIFTT CENTS <••. trol that part of the street. Word A XEAB. was sent to headquarters at Lowell To All Advance Paying Subscribers and In a comparatively short time • . One Dollar. linemen were on hand and repaired damages. The- result was that many JOHN H. TURNER, EOltos. subscribers had their telephones out GEORGE H. B. TURNER, Publisher. of commission and the .service was not very correct.for a number of days, Subscribers are urged to keep their but is now back to normal. subscriptions paid In advance. Mr. and Mrs. Henry'M. Wright were at H. L. Wright's over Sunday, but Publication Offlce, Ayer, Mass. went the first of the week to Join their son Livingston, who is at a boys' Entered as second class matter at the camp at Wolfborough, N. H„ where postofflce at Ayer, Mass. they expect to stay for a week. Saturday, July lo, 1911. Robert S. Young has been quite ill during the week and under his physi­ cian's care. WESTFORD. Mr. and Mrs. Austin H. Foss were About Town. in town this week calling on friends. At present they are staving in Low­ H. E. Fletcher & Co., stone quarry ell. contractors, are busy furnishing stone for a large addition to the Lowell Gas Mrs. Wallace and Pauline and Ra- Light Company's buildings. chael; also, Mrs. Wallace's sister. Mrs. Tarleton, and son Grafton, are at The thunder shower on .Monday af­ Swampscott for a week where Mr. ternoon that furnished lightning- to Wallace will join them a part of the strike the farm buildings of Goldsmith time. Conant in Parkerville and furnished a cloudburst of rain to go with it, Albert E. Prescott is enjoying vaca­ furnished only fourteen drops of rain tion days at home. for one farmer in Stony Brook valley. Last week Thursday afternoon, when Thirteen drops went on the farm and the heat was at its worst, and every one fell on his hot neck while hoeing man capable of fighting Are, felt that and zizzled like a hot stone. his own particular task was enough A swamp Ore is burning near the to meet an alarm for fire was sounded residence of .Mrs. Sarah Drew on the which proved to be on land owned by Boston road. Between dry stumps and Miss Hildreth. Some of the tele­ peat it comes near beating the sun phones were out of commission and Flanders "20" in heat. The town sprayer has be ?.n the church bells were rung in the called to spray-it out, but so far its old-fashioned way. Donald Cameron Three Speed, Fore Door Touring Car $800 resistance has been stout. kindly gathered together a group of fire fighters in his big automobile. The Unitarian church will close for After some vigorous work it was con­ \acation after next Sunday. trolled. It was reported that a work­ Charles Whitney has moved the man had set fire to a hornet's nest The reputation of the E-M-F Factories is due to the high standard of small barn that occupied front place earlier in the day and the fire from near the larger and newer barn to a that smouldered and later broke out plub level west view of his. dwelling and got beyond control. quality maintained in the E-M-F product. Fame for unexcelled Durability house, and proposes to add wings and gradually wing his way into the poul­ Those in charge of the events of try business. the Westford A. A. felt that two games and Satisfactory Service is not an accident. Nor can you buy it. You of baseball on July 4, were sufficient John A. Taylor Is gathering the for that week, but this week the team benefits of being guest of Prof, and plays at Milford, X. H., on Saturday Mrs. \V. H. Whitcomb of Xewton. afternoon. Owing to the pressure of must EARN it. That is the reason why thousands today are buying Prof. Whitcomb was formerly con­ other duties, A. W. Hartford has re­ nected with Miami university, Oxford, signed as manager of the association Ohio. and W. J. Merritt will attend to the E-M-F "30" and Flanders "20" cars. .Millard F. Sawyer, master of Gro­ carrying out of tho schedule for the ton grange, and Mrs. Sawyer visited remainder of the season which will the Old Oaken Bucket farm on Sunday be as already arranged. Next Satur­ They know automobilists everywhere will tell you that these cars afternoon, which resulted in S. L. day ' the team again goes* to Town- are and W. R. Taylor visiting Groton send. grange on Tuesday evening. It is sincerely hoped that the re­ steadily doing their work and giving a vast amount of pleasure, The Old Oaken Bucket farm is hav­ cent increase of salaries for the R. F. No ing sweet corn for dinner today, sev­ D. mail carriers will effect our two enty-seven days from planting. mail carriers, although they have not wonder the factories are unable to cope with all their orders. There is no Miss Frances Bannister is spending at this time received any notice that school vacation days by the cooling the one hundred dollars a year addi­ waves of Swampscott. tional will come their way.. Mr. argument so strong as the. TEST OF TIME grown into the approval of Henry M. Kable has kept dry weath­ Wright of route 1, and Mr. Balch of er wet by irrigation and as a straw­ route 2, have been in charge ever berry specialist he harvested $700 since the system was established in Public Opinion. worth, while others were raising red town and have rendered-a most faith­ strawberry leaves. ful and satisfactory service. The Steeles, Mervin F. and family, The selectmen and the property The E-M-F "30" $1000 and Flanders "20" $800 are the world's bave gone to Canada in the interest owners along our main street have of reciprocity with the weather, and under consideration at this time a plan standard of value. are visiting relatives. for oiling the street to abate the sum­ mer dust nuisance. A Normal course In shorthand bv Deaths. mail is offered to young people In this Mrs. Elizabeth Scott Wilson died at vicinity. See advertisement. • her home on the Carlisle road on Thursday evening, July 6, after a long Picnic. A Y iliR AUTOMOBILE STATION and painful illness. She was of sturdy The excessive heat, the drought and Scotch descent which she exemplified getting the hay crops have pretty- in sturdy, positive opinions and ac­ much occupied people's attention the ROBT. MURPHY & SONS, Props. tions at all times. She fost?red no last week and readable items for our neutral opinions and was not an ad­ columns are not too plenty. Each mirer of the principle in thc- life of household has had tp_solve. the prob­ Phone 86-3 Distributing_Agents .. ... AVFR, MASS.- society. * Trained in the Scotch rever­ lem of nieeting the great heat and hu­ ence and daily" reading of the bible, midity the best it could. It would time on Sunday, and four galloa-.-*.' of was another mark; also, a large tree I Bookn Added «o Reuben Hour l.iiirnr.v she maintained this daily discipline seem that the weather the last week water removed. near the swimming hole on land own-iHome life in Spain Hensusan through life. Her home life was regu­ would at least teach us to meet ordi­ Mrs. Ella Rockwood has been assist­ ed by Herbert Corey. A bolt also fell | '?wei*e,r °" \he threshold HIchens WM. E. WHEELER lated by those qualities and transmitted nary hot weather with comparative n ('odman ing in caring for Mrs. Shattuck. ;« Krt„i. „<• .i. -j , ... . ^ ardent American to those who "rise up and call her philosophy. White General Blacksmithing Three handsome deer were seen in back of the residence of Edwin ThNewe cabinationalisn m itooHevelt blessed." The funeral took place from The weather last week Friday was Taylor. | Sunshine Annie Gates AND DEALER IN grazing near the residence of Harry Obvious Orient the home on Monday afternoon. Rev. the one exception with its comfortable Hart David Wallace conducting the service. Marshall last week. LITTLETON. Young pitcher lirey Sulky and Walking Plows; Disk, temperature and the freshening effect The singing of "Jesus lover of my Among friends brothers of the good shower the night before Forty-seven dogs have been licensed News Items. China's story Gil His Spring Tooth and Cutaway Har-' koul," and the "Christian's good in town this year. and this was fortunate for the annual Miss Emily Adams and her cousin, To love and to cberlsb Hall night," was by Elizabeth and Jennie Jack Ballington, forester Moore rows, Wheelbarrows, Bakes and .Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barnaby and Miss Mabel Webber, have -.ijone to Kimball and Rachel and Florence Wil­ outing of the Congregational Sunday- Famous scouts Johnston Mowing Machines. school. This year the children and baby; also, Mrs. Barnaby's sister of Bermuda Islands for a montn'X Down to the sea Grenfell son, grandchildren of the deceased Xew York, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kitty's conquest King their parents and friends went to The first shipment of apples this Logging Trucks, Express and J. Carke Barnaby. My Mark Twain Howells Besides her husband, John Wilson, Canobie Lake park, leaving here on season was made from the statioiyon Trevor lordship Barclay Concord Wagons, Harnesses, Etc.. she leaves four children—James D., the 7.45 car. The day was spent in the Fitchburg division of the Boston Hrlest. (the I Anon J Arthur E., Florence Wilson and Deaths. Hoot of evil Dixon enjoyinsr the many attractions of the and Maine on Tuesday. Broad highway Carriages of all kinds repaired Mrs. George A. Kimball and ten Mrs. Elvira L. Shattuck, widow of I-'arnol park, a pirnic dinner together at noon Ralph Conant returned to Chicago Year ln u coal mine Husband in a thorough manner. Rubber grandchildren. The bearers were the late Charles Henry Shattuck, ' Hobinetta and a ball game ln the early after­ the middle of this week. Wiggins James and Arthur Wilson, George A. noon. At night a later car on our passed away at the home of Mr. and I People's king. Short life . f ICdward Tires furnished. Painting and VII Ilolt-Whlte Kimball and George Wright. Burial branch line that had been especially Mrs. Albert T. Pierce on Sunday. July Rev. B. A. Royal of West Boylston 9, after a short illness, aged 79 yrs. Study of greatness-In men Larned General Jobbing. Horseshoeing a was in Fairview cemetery under the arranged for. met the party at Brook­ will occupy the pulpit again at the Long roll Johnston direction of David L. Greig, under­ side and brought them home, perhaps 9 mos. 9 days. The funeral took place Baptist church tomorrow. Specialty. at the Pierce homestead on Tuesday taker. pretty tired, but feeling that it had The Congregational church wiil be It II. I. MORK THAN WILD IIKASTS. afternoon. Rev. James N. Seaver offici­ been a most successful outing. Mr. closed the next two Sundays and open The number of people killed yearly by Central Aye. ating and paying a fitting tribute to Ayer, Mass. Dr. Georga E. Harwood. who died in again the last Sunday in July. wild beasts don't approach thc vast Wallace and Mr. Osgood efficiently "Aunt Viva." Mrs. Jennie Boutelle Phone, Res. 78-4. Worcester after several years' illness, number killed by disease germs. No life looked after the details of the trip. sweetly sang, "Jesus, lover of my Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Sargent of Is safe from their attacks. They're In was in early life a resident of West­ soul," and "Good night." A beautiful Montague City, announced the engage­ air, water, dust, even food. But grand MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF ford, the son of Ephraim A. Harwood, protection is afforded by Electric Bit­ BROOKLINE, N. H. wreath of roses and sprays of pinks ment of their daughter Mabel to li\ing at Brookside. He attended the ters, which destroy and expel these dead­ and roses; also. s\ve?t peas covered Harry \V. Ireland of Littleton. ly disease germs from thc system. That's N'abnassett school and later the Stony REAL ESTATE Kevrs Items. the casket. The burial was in the why chills, fever and ague, all malarial Brook school, where the writer was Mrs. William C. Brown has been nnd many blood diseases yield promptly A public hearing will be held at the Walton cemetery at Pepperell. She is entertaining a sister this last week. to this wonderful blood purifier. Try schoolmate with him. and rounded out library room on Saturday evening, survived by a brother. Harris Gilson Mrs. Carrie Gilman Edwards Is them, and enjoy the glorious health and By virtue of a power of sale con­ his education at Westford academy. July 1.",, at eight o'clock. All citizens new strength they'll give you. Monev of Wakefield. Mass.. and a sister. Mrs. filling lecture recital engagements In tained in a certain mortgage deed Burial was at Fairview cemeterv on who are interested in having electric back. If not satlsned. Only COc. at L. M. Cochrane of Wollaston; also, northern Vermont. On- July 7. she William Brown's, Ayer. given by Michael W. Leahy to Thomas Thursday afternoon in charge of' Da­ lights put in their houses or places several nieces and nephews. gave her lecture. "Life forces in -Moore dated March 2SV1906,- and re­ vid L. Greig, undertaker. of business are requested to attend. music," before the Memphremagog corded in Middlesex (South District) O. D. Fessenden will be in attendance Among those in attendance from >"ew AdTertlsements. Yacht club at Newport, last evening Registry of Deeds in Book 3221, Page Thomas H. Murray died on Wednes­ and will answer any question relative out-of-town were Harris Gilson. Wake­ a recital at Orleans, and this evening FOR SAI.K—One Phaeton Buggy. JC, 47o, and for breach of the condition day morning at his home on the Con­ to the cost of lighting and other ex­ field; Mrs. I.. M. Cochrane. Car! brings hor musical season to a close and a Depot Carriage. $20. Address thereof, will be sold at public auction cord road after a long and painful penses. Cochrane. Mrs. Lulu M. Gifford. Wol­ h. S. I„.. Groton. Mass.. Box 77, R at Passu nipsic. F. upon- the premises on Monday the illness from dropsy. For several laston, Mass.; Mrs. Lula Magrath, ». No. U44" ormal tWjrt>';flnrt dny of Jnly, 1011, at three vears he had been section foreman on Mrs. Louise Bragg went to St. Jo­ Nashua; George Ball. Miss Bernice ';, ^ course In shorthand by seph's hospital to undergo an opera- Ball, Fremont; Mr. and Mrs. Perley man Is offered to young people In this o'clock In the nfternoon all and singu­ the Nashua and Acton railroad and vicinity. See advertisement. • FRANK S. BENNETT •was a member of Westford grange. ton for appendicitis. Mr. and. Mrs. Blake, Pepperell; Mrs. Dana Fletcher, lar the premises conveyed by said Walter Fessenden and William Ran­ Mrs. Frank Knights. Townsend Har­ Church Xot>M. Successor to ARTHUR FENNER mortgage deed, namely,—a certain dall accompanied her. Center. bor. Children's Sunday will be observed Insurance Agent and Broker parcel of land situated In Littleton; James H. S. Tucker of Nashua and nt the Unitarian church next Sundav near Littleton Common, so-called, Friends of Miss Mabel Rand, a form­ morning, the decorations being largely .Mrs. Clary of Haverhill, were guests 1 rfviv Main Street, Turner's Building bounded and described as follows: er teacher at the academy, will sym­ Mrs. Isabel M. J. Coburn. widow of ~r,il\l £' - v. *l "t Lily Sunday. at the Tucker homestead on Friday- the late George Coburn of Ix>well. JVolu.i™ ?e<-i' om' of lhc Pleasant AIER. MASS. Beginning at a stone wall at land of pathize with her in the illness and traditions of this school. There will evening, July 7. died at the home of her sister. Mrs. Miss G. M. Stone, Public Typewriter Nelson B. Conant on tho easterly side disappointment she has recently had ^i,^CrC ca,by thc members of tho to undergo. Miss Rand had made all Mrs. George L. Badger of Quincy is Lucy Burge, on Wednesday. June 28, school In recitations and songs. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU­ of the old road leading from Littleton at the parental home for the week. aged sixty-three years. The funeral SETTS. Middlesex, ss. Probate Court Center to Groton, and running north­ plans and preparations to go to Eu­ The Young People's Guild will omit To the heirs-at-law, next ot kin and" rope during the long vacation and very Mrs. Fletcher of Pepperell has been took place at the residence of Mr. their meetings for the coming seven all other persons Interested 4n the es­ easterly on. said Nelson B; Conant's weeks, taking a vacation until the land about one hundned and eighty-two shortly • before the time for sailing, ill at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James and Mrs. Payson Burge on Friday, first Sunday In September. tate of LUCY B. SHATTUCK late of Juno 30. Burial was In the West Groton In said County, deceased. (182) feet to a stone bound at land of was taken very seriously ill and un­ Hill. Whereas, cortaln Instruments pur^ derwent an operation for appendicitis, cemetery, Milford.. A sister, Mrs. Pay- Inspiring: Address. porting to bo tho last will and testa­ the grantor; thence continuing in the Mrs. Walter Parker. Miss Eliza J. same direction, in a straight line on and the weeks that were to havo been son Burge, mourns her Joss. Rev. Edward S. Tead. secretary of ment of said deceased has been pre­ Parker, Miss Louise Parker and maid sented to said Court, for Probate, bv land of grantor three hundred and spent in travel will have to be spent the Congregational Educational soci­ of Lowell are at Four Pines for the EDWIN .A. SHATTUCK. who. prays thirty-live (335) feet to land of Conant, in the hospital and convalescence. Lightning Full of Pranks. ety, preached at tbe Congregational that Jotters testamentary may be Is­ summer. Houghton & Co.; tbehce northwester­ A severe electrical storm, accom­ church last Sunday to the edification sued to him, thc executor therein Harold W. Hildreth has returned Rev. George L. Perin, D. D., and named, without giving a surety on his ly on land of Conant, Houghton & panied by wind, passed over town on and pleasure of the good number from an enjoyable vacation spent In family of Brookline, Mass., are at omclal- bond. Co., and land now or formerly owned Maine. Thursday afternoon. July 6. Lighning ?r!,?eJ*t* In a refreshing and marked You-aro hereby cited to appear at a their summer home. Probate Court, to bo hold at Cambridge by. Albert S. Bradley, four hundred entered a room at thc residence of individual manner., he outlined the During the severe shower on last Mrs. Ernest W. Nye and dauehter In said County of Middlesex, on the and twenty-one (421) feet to a stono Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Russell, coming history, aims and achievements of twenty-first day of July A. D. 1911, at week Thursday evening with IU Doris, Ruth and Constance of San- bound; thence northeasterly on land in at one corner, passing through a this society in the ninety-five years nlno o'clocW in tho forenoon, to show 8ald -thunder and lightning, the cable in down are at the home of Mr. and •?ov Albert S. Bradley about nine picture and going out of the door. The of its existence. In that period of cause, if any you have, why tho samo front of the academy was burnt out. Mrs. George H. Nye. houso occupied by Mrs. O'Connell was should not bo granted. (9) rode to the Great road leading The lightning struck with a 'sharp time it has helped educate £700 minis­ . And nald petitioner Is hereby direc­ from Littleton Common to Groton; The residence of Mrs. Daviuavl

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Mr and Mrs Charles Packard en­ Sundaj morning on the topic, 'The joyed a few da>s at their farm in sow'er,' and in the evening his sub- . Ashburnham this week. ' Jcct will be "Three fools." ,? Prank V. Noyes. wife and little son Miss Florence L. Austin is visiting'* have arrived at I. M. Clem's for their at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexan­ The Atterbury summer vacation. der Reed. wm A Normal course in shorthand' bv mall is offered to young people In this Clarence Stickney lost one of his vicinity. See advertisement. • team horseB by sunstroke last Wedr nesday afternoon. %i?a Death. . Mrs. .Mary i Eastman) Whltcomb, A 1'EEK INTO HIS POCKRT wife of Silas Whitcomb, died at .Marl­ would show the box of Biicklen's Arni­ Trucks boro last week Thursday, aged sixty- ca Salve that E. S. Loper, a carpenter, of Marllla. N. Y.. always carries. "I have • five years. She had been in poor never bad a cut. wound, bruise, or.sore It health for some time, which was would not soon heal," he writes. Greatest Gasoline or Electric caused b.v heart trouble and dropsy, healer of burns, bolls, scalds, chapped hands and lips, fever-sores, skln-crup- the excessive heat of last week hasten­ tlons. eczema, corns and piles. 26c. at • ing matters. The body was brought William Brown's, • Ayer. to Townsend and the funeral held at I the M. E. church on Sunday afternoon, New Advertisements From 3-4 Ton to 5 Ton Capacity Rev. s. P. Uobertson ofliciating. The singing was by a quartet—Miss Stella Farrar, Mrs. Rouy Cowdrey, Herman Clarke and S. P. Robertson. Burial ENVI0U8J0MEN Built by the oldest manufacturers of was in town. Mrs. Whitcomb was a sister of J. You can Have just as Lovely a Head W. and George L. Eastman of this of Hair us any Woman town. Her husband is a brother of motor trucks in America. They have Dea. George Whltcomb and they form­ Don't feel blue because your hair is erly resided here on the Whitcomb lifeless and faded, get a bottle of farm, but of late years Mr. Whitcomb Parisian Sage and see how quickly it passed the experimental stages, with has been a contracting carpenter, and will become brilliant ahd fascinating. they have lived in various . places Use it daily for a few days and note wherever his work called him. Mrs. how quickly scalp itch ceases and the result the 1911 car is a finished car .Whitcoinb's girlhood home was the dandruff vanishes. George. Ea'stman place. It stops falling hair too and makes Cant5r halr siw tMck and pr —a. car that',has no equal for design, BesiderherTusbrnd 'and two broth- f?!'°i1f °- ers.'Mrs. Whitcomb leaves a daughter, fusely. Mrs. Flora Ladd, of Hollis, N. H. It's the real invigorating, delightful mechanical detail and construction. hair dressing for men; women and West Townsend. children, and best of all, if it doesn't do just as advertised get your money Mr. Grant, who has spent the past back. It kills the dandruff germs and' A special point is made of accessibility, month with his cousin, Mrs. Mervin for 50 cents you can get a large bottle ' Hodgman, has returned to his home at William Brown's and ' druggists 1 .at,Ross .Pointy N.Y., accompanied by. everywhere. The girl .with the Au-: a point that will interest you if you his aunt, Mrs. Allison, who will spend burn hair is on every bottle. 3:M Model K-20, 1500 lbs. the remainder of the summer in that vicinity, where she has made her COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU-. •: home for maiiy years SETTS. Middlesex, ss. Probate Court: know of the systematic cars and atten­ To the helrs-at-law, next of kin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grimes, who creditors, and all other persons inter­ ested In the estate of AUGUSTA: tion all cars receive .if ^attention is_paid to-cost of-operation. returned from their wedding trip at HUNTER late of Shirley In said Coun- " Walpole, Me., last Monday, were sere ty, deceased, Intestate. . -.•'•'[' naded at their n"**\v home In the Justin Whereas a petition has been present­ ed to said Court to grant a letter of Hodgman house last Wednesday even administration on' the estate of said- ing and a very pleasant'"evening was deceased to MARTHA J.-;HUNTER and enjoyed by the many friends present ANNIE B. HUNTER of Shirley*' in the County of Middlesex, without giving*'* Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ware's were surety on their bond. . The question of economy interests every the recipients of several nice gifts You are hereby cited to appear at a Probate Court to be held at Cambridge.'. in silver last Wednesday, that being In said County of Middlesex, on tbe prospective purchaser of motor trucks. What the twenty-fifth anniversary of th;ir twenty-fifth day of July A. D. 1911; wedding, and in the afternoon their at nine o'clock in- the forenoon, to . show cause If any you have, why. the pastor called upon them and present­ same should not be granted. can a car do in comparison with a horse- ed them with a purse of silver as a And the petitioners are hereby di­ token of affection from'the members rected to give, public notice thereof.. of the Baptist church. •jollshlng this citation once in each, drawn vehicle, and what is the average cost week, for three successive weeks, in Miss Nancy Reed has been visiting Turner's Public Spirit, a newspaper published In Ayer, the last publication • at the home of one of her schoolmates to be one day, at least,' before said'..-• of operation ? A question we frequently have in Milford, N. H., this week. Court. • -,-•-.. :-. . -. Miss Grace L. Seaver of Boston has Witness, Charles J. Mclntlre. Esquire; First Judge of said Court, .this, sixth put to us. Let us send you a catalogue and been spending a few days with Miss day of July .In the year one thousand ' lij>§ Alice Seaver! nine hundred and eleven. Miss Nellie C. Clarke of Boston . 3t43 F. M. ESTY. Asst. Register. Wh an estimated cost of operating the Atterbury visited her mother, Mrs. Lucy R. Clare COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU- : last week SETTS. Middlesex, ss. Probate Court. To the helrs-at-law, next of kin. truck. Oscar Lovering of Waltham has been creditors, and all other persons Inter-- with his father, C. E. Streeter, at ested in the estate of DELIA McRAY . late of Ayer in said County, deceased. Frank Farrar's, for a few days. Intestate. Levi Lawrence of Dunstable has Whereas, a petition, has been pre­ Model L-30, 1 1-2 Ton sented to said Court to grant", a letter! been with William Lawrence for a of administration on the estate of said few days this week. deceased to MICHAEL D. McGRAIL of Boston In the County of Suffolk, and Miss Minnie Hoag of Boston is CATHERINE SHAUGHNESSY of Marl- spending her vacation with Mr. and borough In the County of Middlesex, Mrs. Frank Kelley of Josselynville, without giving a surety, on their bond. You are hereby cited to appear at a Mr. and Mrs. S. Leroy Shapleigh of Probate Court to be held at Cambridge, AYER AUTOMOBILE STATION Somerville visited ..Mrs. Mary Foster in Said County of Middlesex, on the and at—William-Thorpe's over-Suni y-fourth-day of Juiy-A-P. 19U. * at nine* o'clock in the' forenoon, to Mrs. Conway..and daughter-Beatrice- -show-cause,-If any-you-Iiaver-why^-thi ROBERT MURPHY & SONS, PROPS. from Salem are with Miss Bessie Con same should not be granted. And the petitioner is hereby directed way at A. J. .Manchester's. to give public notice thereof, by pub­ Miss Laura Upton from Milton is lishing this citation once ln each week, 'PHONE 86-3 Distributing Agents for three successive weeks. In Turner's AYER, MASS. spending a vacation with Mrs. S. W. Public Spirit, a newspaper published Upton and Mrs. Alexander Reed in Ayer, the last publication to be ono Fred Estes and Mr. and Mrs. Harry day, at least, before said Court TOWNSEND. our local nine. For Townsend, Knight Witness, Charles J. Mclntlre. Esquire. and Eastman were the battery, with Streeter and daughter from Waltham Well Worth Reading Center. First Judge of said Court, this twenty- Bartlett playing third base. During are camping at Ward pond with Mr. seventh day of June ln the year one and Mrs. William Mills at their cot­ thousand nine hundred and ele\en Mrs. Harry Streeter . and daughter ihe first inning our boys did not get 3t42 .-..-•F.-'M-.-ESTY. Asst. Register I have been in the Marion of Waltham have been at Eben into trim and four errors were chalk­ tage. Estes' for the past week. Mr. Streeter ed against them and Weare got three Several near prostrations from the ETAN P. TfEKTWOBTH, D. M. D. Joined them here this week. Fred runs. Townsend got two and then extreme heat have been reported dur­ BUBT M. BRISTOL, D. M. D. Estes has also been at home. they straightened into line and soon ing the past week, and a horse belong­ Furniture and had the visitors going, finishing the Xicholas McGuire has been improv­ ing to Mr. Winthrop, a junk dealer DENTISTS game with a score of 14 to 5. from Fitchbure. dropped dead on the 419 Bortmtou St, ing the appearance of his new home Fitchburg road about a mile out of the Undertaking Business by repairs on the piazza. Miss Florence Copeland of Fitch­ village on Friday of last week. Telephone Boston, Hafts. • ', • - / >, burg is visiting at Mllo Spaulding's. *i °~JX' V'I'S* in Ayer and adjoining towns about forty years and my reasonable j Thursday of'last week, did consider- Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wilson have re­ Dr. Bristol, Boston, Mondays and W*d-v »!«»&'•-•". Mrs: Lizzie Aspinwall is visiting her covered from ptomaine poisoning nesday*. ^, &i%V?W'ie prices and honorable dealings has merited me quite a successful; able damage, although no great daughter Leola at Keene. X. H. which attacked them at the home of t a m f rai n fe Tne edge of a : «a-*'?^ business and it has been my aim to keep my prices a little below the; ""*°" u °_ . _ "* Eldon Sanders, accompanied bv Mrs. Mrs. McKenzie at the Center last ELI. GOODMAN average. I have purchased the best of equipments to meet the de­ small hurricane swooped down sud­ week. is in the denly and uprooted and blew over Ai Richards, left for Maiden recentlv, ''/%*T mands of the public and all of my furnishings are of the best I can many trees in the twinkling of an eye. where he will visit his grandparents The Misses Myrtle and Lottie Un­ JUNK BUSINESS until school begins. Mrs. Richards bart spent a few days with friends buy. I also claim the distinction of giving the best of service to A large limb of the handsome cutleaf in and his residence is on Elm Street, maple in George Wilder's yard was visited her sister a few days before Boston last week. the Childs- house, Ayer, Mass. If you all who have called me in the before-mentioned professions and I returning. have anythlner In the Junk line to dis­ blown over; also, pines belonging Misg ste]Ia Tucker nas entered the pose of, be sure and give Mr. Goodman challenge any one to produce one dissatisfied patron. I have buried to r. S. Adams; an apple tree in Ai Mrs. George Clarke of Main street employ of the Belgrade Rug Company call. 22tf the poor as well as the rich, and during all this time I never told any Hjchards' yard was uprooted and has purchased the brick house which . in Josselynville for a few months. BOSTON and NORTHERN ST. BY. one to go and see the selectmen before attending to their needs, but felled to the ground; trees ln Dr. At- she occupies of Miss Claribelle Brooks Mrs. Benjamin has been suffering CO. LOWELL DIVISION. wood's orchard and J. L. Farrar's The sale was made this week Monday from a badly burned hand, caused b.v attended to the former without compensation, and I have done many TIME TABLE. other kindnesses to those who today have forgotten it. I have never pasture were demolished as were Joseph Temple, Jr., has moved his 'he accidental overturning of a pot parts of trees in many places about family from Fitchburg to the small °'' bot tea at the home of Mrs. Justin Issued June 21. 1909. paid anyone to recommend me and make the patron pay for it. I town. The lightning struck in one or Wyeth house, recently (Subject to change without notice.) two spots around town. vacated In- Hodgman on last Tuesday. appreciate the past public patronage. Mrs. Mary Blood. Koy Kaddy, who has been employ­ WEEK DAI-TIME. Dennis Coffey of New Haven, Conn., The Fitchburg mlmia, Capt. Cilson ed at Patch's stable, has taken a po­ Lcaie Merrimack Square, Lowell (ot in command, came to Townsend on sition with his brothers in Boston, and Boston via Tewksburg and Reading was the guest of his parents, Mr. and tp Sullivan Square Terminal; Charles­ Mrs. John M. Coffey, over Sunday. Saturday afternoon and camped near Oren Powers is taking his place in town—6.46 a. m. and every 30 mlns. L. B. TUTTLE, Ayer, Mass. Dudley's, where they had a pleasant the stable. until 9.4 6 p. m. Sundays—Same as COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU­ COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU­ Last Saturday morning an alarm Sunday's outing, returning on Sundav The public library will be open for week days. Return—Leave.' Suillvan SETTS. Middlesex, ss. Probato Court. SETTS. Middlesex, ss. I'robate Court. was rung in for fire at the Fessenden evening. Square—$.45 a. m., and every SO mlns To tho helrs-at-law and all others To the helrs-at-law anil al! other the delivery of books next Saturday until 8.45 p. m. Sundays—7.46 a. m, Interested ln tho estate of MARIA coal sheds near the railroad track. and every 30 mlns. until 9.16 p. m. persons interested in the estate of The fire was discovered burning brisk­ Rufus Brown, who was operated up­ afternoon and evening at the usual CoHT'tN BRUCE lato of Townsend In MELVIN A. CHILDS late of Ayer In hours, and all wishing for books will Boston via North Blllerlca, Blllerlca said County, deceased. said County, deceased. ly upon tho roof soon after the freight on for appendicitis last week Friday Centre, 'Burlington, Woburn, Winches­ Whereas. RICHARD McELLIGOTT. Whoroas, MYRTA A. WOODS, ad­ went up. With the aid of Are ex­ at the' Massachusetts General hospi­ call for cards at the reading-room ter and Medford to Suillvan Square- administrator with thc will annexed ministratrix of thc estate of said de­ tinguishers and a line of hose set tal, is getting along nicely accord­ from 1.30 to 2.30 in the afternoon, and Terminal, Charlestown—S.26 a. m. and of thc estate of said deceased has pre­ ceased, has presented to Mild Court her ing to last reports.- the books will be distributed from every 60 mlns. until 9.26 p. m. (Satur­ sented to said Court, his petition for potltlon for license to sell at private from their own hydrant, the fii-e was days every 30 mlns. from 12.26 p. tn. license to sell at private sale, ln ac­ sale, in accordance wiih the offer under control before the steamer ar­ Mr. ahd Mrs. Perley Eastman of seven until eight In the evening as until 9.66 p. m.) .10.26 p. m. to Woburn cordance with the offer named In said named In said petition, or upon such usual. only. Sundays—6.66 a. m. and everySO petition, or upon such terms as may bo rived. Albany, N. Y., who have been guests mlns. until 9.66 p. m.. 10.26 p. m. to wo­ terms as may be adjudged best, the at George Eastman's, returned home burn only. Roturn—Leave Sullivan adjudged best, thc real estate of said whole of- a certain parcel of the real W. F. Rockwood has a new Buick Preparations are being made for a deceased, for the purpose of distribu­ estate of said deceased for the pay­ this week Wednesday. lawn party and snow ball sale on the Squaro Terminal—6.32 a. m. and every tion. car which was purchased from E. 0. 60 minutes until 9.32 p.m. (Saturdays ment of debts, and chniKcs of adminis­ Ralph Bush is visiting his sister, grounds of the Baptist church on,next every 30 mins. from 11.82 a. ro. until You are hereby cited to appear at a tration, and for other reasons set forth Proctor of Ayer. It arrived fn town Tuesday evening under the auspices 9.S2 p. m.) Sundays—7.32 a. m. and Probate Court to bo held at Cambridge, in said petition. last Saturday. Miss Gertrude Rock­ Mrs. Grace Pierce, at West Medford. ovary 30 mlns. until 9.32 p. m. in said County of Middlesex, on tho You are hereby cited to appear at a of the Y. P. S. C. E., and the money . Lawrence—6.1S, 6.16, 6.40 a. m. and twentieth day of July A. D. 1911. at Probate Court to be held at Cambridge wood is to drive It. Miss Nellie Weston is enjoying a will be used toward a payment on the every 20 mins, until 10.40 p. m. Sun­ nine o'clock In tho forenoon, to show In said County, on the twenty-fourth E. A. Blood and John Going have trip to Pittsfleld and vicinity. Miss piano used in the vestry. No admis­ days—7.10 a. m., then same as week cause, If any you have, why the same day of July A. n. Kill, at nine o'clock SUIIK Abble Qr.een of the West village is days. Return—Leave Lawrenoe—5,10. should not bo granted. In the forenoon, to show cause, If any had the new copper-point lightning sion will be charged, but ice cream 6.10, 6.60 a. m. and every 30 mlns. un­ And said petitioner Is ordered to you have, why the same should not rods put upon their .buildings. ThlThiss jj canng for her mother during her ab- and cake and lemonade and snow til 10.60 p. m. Sundays!—7.20 a. fn.. serve this citation by delivering a copy be granted. is the rod which has been so popular ' sence. balls will be on sale and a good pat-' then same as week days. thereof to all persons interested, who And .said petitioner Is ordered to in the west, and there has been no ronage Is hoped for. An informal North Chelmsford via Middlesex can be found within the Common­ serve this citation by delivering a copy Mrs. A. D. Fessenden's house is be­ Street—6.18. 6.00, 6.30, 6.66, 7.03 a. tn. wealth, fourteen days, at least, before thereof to each person Interested In known record of any building having ing equipped with a lightning rod this program will be given by local tal­ and every 16 mlns. until 11.38 p. m Bald Court, and If any ono cannot bo tho estate fourteen days, at least,, be­ been struck, which was equipped with week. ent. Sundays—7.33, 8.03 a. m.. and every lt so found, by publishing the same Once fore said Court, or by publishing the them. . ' • mlns. until 10.33 p. m. Return—Leave ln each week, for three successive same once In each week for three Those passing over the roads in the Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Davis left on North Chelmsford—MO. 6.66. 6.80. 6,67, weeks. In Turner's Public Spirit, a successive weeks In Tumor's Public News has been received from Guam. Donovan district say that never be­ Tuesday morning for Stoddard, N. H., 7.18 a. m., and every 16 mins. until newspaper published Ihr Ayer, the last Spirit,, a newspaper published ln Ayor Pacific ocean, of tho birth of a little fore have they been In such excellent 11.03 p. m„ then 11.48 p. m. Sundays— publicatio, n to be ono day, at least, be­ the last'publication to be ono day, at for tho remainder of the eummer, 8.03 a. m. and every 16 mlns. until tl 03 , fore said Court ••*• least, before said Court. ' daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Warren condition as they are this season', and closing their residence on Main street. p. m.- • • ' *• '-..-.:•• Witness Charles J. Mclntlre, Esquire, Witness, Charles J. Mclntlre. Esquire, Barnaby on May 3. She is to be call­ towards the Shirley lino they aro . Nashua—6.45 a. m. and every 10 mlns. it-i First Judge of- said Court, this twenty- Fred Rawson and friend from the until 10.45 p. m. (Saturdays every 30 ' First Judge of said Court, this fifth ed Barbara. The letter conveying the equal-to a boulevard. Goodwill farm, Hinkley, Me., aro at th6 soventh day of Juno In tho yoar one day of July In the year one thousand news reached here the latter part of mlns. from 12.45 p. m. until 10.15 p. m.) thousand nlno hundred and oleven. nlno hundred and cloven. , ' Joseph Searles, who is ill with home of Mr. Rawson's mother, Mrs. Sundays—7.15 a. m. and every SO mlns. 3t42 P. M. ESTY, Asst. Register. 3t43 W. E. ROGERS, Register. last, week, having been on the wav all pneumonia; Is improving slowly. until 10.15 p. m. , Return—Leave Nashua thlsi time. H. L. Stickney, for a vacation. —6.85 a. m. and every 60 mlns. onttl Mr. and Mrs". John Gwlnn left this 10.36 p. m. (Saturdays every 30 mina. ClaTence Stickney has an. artesian from 1.36 p. m, \intll 10.35 p. ni.) Bun- HARRY P. TAINTER Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Bruce are week for a' two-months' trip to Cape well driven at the Sanders place in days—7.35 a. m. and every SO mins. un- Jas. P. Fitch enjoying a vacation at Rockpo'rt, Lit­ North, Cape .-Britain, which Is MV. Josselynville, supplying water to hrs tll_10.86 p. m. Fire and Life tleton and. Ashby. Gwinn's former-, home. barn and also to the house belonging Tyngsboro'vi. gsbor a Middlesex Street—$.13, The Nashua A.. A. .will play the to Charles Stickney on the Ashby 6.00, 6.66, .'7.18 a. m., and every 20 JEWELER' Mrs. A. Is.'-Struthers has been suf­ / mlns. until 9.48 p. to„ then 10.48 p m. Insurance Agent OAKLEY'S BLOCK. MAIN STREET second game of the season here this fering froni asllght attack of neuritis road. . ' . •,- Sundays—8.18 a. nu antf-sveryjo mlns. Saturday. ',.„.. which has b«h very painful, but she The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. until 10.11 p. m. Retnrah-Leave Tynga-. Groton, Mass. NEAR p. p., AYER A largo delegation from East Weare is now'..improving;-'.' Tumber has been dangerously'ill, but FOR SALE!—White PlK*. JAMBS I close Tfcsirsdars at noon daring July came by auto last Saturday to wit­ Miss Helen Miller of Quincy is at la now recovering. . aad Angnat *nntlr 1^3#.'tfc m. # - STARR, Pepperell. ness their baseball team play against Mrs. A. D; Fessenden's. Rev. S. D. Ringrose will preach 'on

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JOHN Bf. TTmMER, Editor. Miss Irene S. Peabody returned visited friends in the \lllage on Wed­ The farm property of the Crossley •QBORGB- H. B.~ TURNER. Publisher. homo last Monday from a two-weeks nesday. "' brothers on the depot Js for sale visit ln Cambridge While there she Publication Offlce, Ayer, Mass. Harold Strand of Fitchburg is . at Prof, and Mrs. Leonard have closed attended the. class' day exercises at home on his vacation.-^ their house here and are spending Harvard. Subscription price, ?1.50 per annum, Allen Sedley and family of Boston, their \acatlon with relatives ln Need­ 'if paid in advance, $1.00.-. Albert B. Farwell and family'from coming by automobile, visited their ham and Cotuit. Winchester are at tho Chapman cot­ summer home here, oh Sunday. , - TURNERocsoi tage in Chicopee row. ' Still Biter. ~ ' GEO-B Watch, the Date on .Yonr Paper John Humiston of Jaffrey, N. H., ra­ The date with your name Is stamped Dr. H. B. Priest, associate medical There was a short thunder shower on the margin shows to' what time coming on Saturday, has .been a gujst -AYBR,flLASS. it your subscription Is paid, and serves examiner, was called on Wednesday during the week of his grandmother here on Monday afternoon, and the as a continuous receipt. to view the Tamains of a man found Mrs.Martha Tarbell. ' lightning struck the ground near the in that part of Shirley called Tophet. : Herbert Atherton barn and set fire Change of Address. The unidentified man had been dead H. E. Lindall is spending the second to. the dry grass, and but for the fact Subscribers wishing the- postofflce ad­ about three months. week of his vacation at his home here. that Chester P. Willard was going dress of their paper changed must send Mrs. George Woolaver and three to his barn on a load of hay and hap­ us both the old and new address. His furlough having expired, H. Wash' Dress Skirts children—George, Annie and John, are W. .Mason returned on • Thursday to pened to see the flash of lightning 'The dally labors of the Bee, spending the summer with relatives and saw the smoke and was able to New styles in white, navy, tan, black and white Shepard • Awake my soul to Industry; the ship Idaho at the Philadelphia Who can observe the careful Ant, navy yard, leaving his father more in Nova Scotia. Mr. Woolaver. will get onto the Job at once, there would . checks and linen, And not provide for future want?" comfortable than when he came home. Join her later. have been a. big fire as the barn would The Idaho sails soon to Join the fleet William Gay of Groton Is working have caught in a few minutes. With Prices, 98£, 91.69 and $2.50 Saturday, July 15, 1911. at Provincetown. in the papermill and boarding with the high wind and everything so dry, it would likely have burned several Miss Fannie E. Woods was called Mrs. Mitchell. Renald Fernald is em­ ployed for the summer b.v Bixby-Web- houses before it could have been stop­ GROTON. on Tuesday to attend the funeral of ped. a friend in Dorchester. Miss Woods ber Company. These two young men Kimonos . News Items. found the heat almost unbearable, the were graduates of Groton high, clasf, .Masons from Clinton came on Wed­ Long and short. New patterns in muslins and crepe, fine .Mrs. J. Woolton has returned to most intense ever experienced. of '11. Mr. Fernald it at the home of nesday and repaired the ceiling iu the Groton after a two-weeks' visit to her his sister, Mrs. G. S. Webber. Baptist church so that now all is in assortment of eolors, William H. Whitehill has just had readiness for the frescoers to come friend, Mrs. XV. S. Nutter, ot Lake erected a new Sampson windmill with Mr. and Mrs. John Young, with Prices, 25fc 50& 62^, 98£, $1.25 and $1.88 View, Worcester, formerly of this daughters Gertrude and Grace, and and, decorate the auditorium and ves­ a steel tower, lt is placed over the try. town. same well where Mr. Gilson had his son Arthur; also, Mr. and Mrs. Thom- George Prescott has fully recovered wooden tower and mill. j as McMahon are occupying the Wheel- Elsie and Esther Smith are visiting jer cottage at Long pond during thoir their aunt in Lynn for a few weeks. from the prostration of last week and The thermometers in Groton run up is about as usual. Mr. Prescott feels | vacation. William Hart has given up his po­ House Dresses 7 to 100° above zero this week, some­ grateful to all those who rendered times a degree or two below or above ! Horace Sprague of Denver, Col., sition on the Still River-Boston milk New styles made from ginghams and percales, sizes 34 to 42, him assistance. according to varying conditions or sit­ [visited friends here the first of the car and Fred Haynes is running in John Boynton has bought out the uations. AU animal and .vegetable life [ week. his place. Prices, $1.50, ?1.75, -81.98, 82.25 and 82.50 tonic business of Fred Smith of West- is panting for lower temperature and Mr. and Mrs. Lindall of Roslindale On Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. lord. Charles Shattuck is running a good fall of rain. The pastures and are visiting their, son, H. E. Lindall. Viles returned from a fortnight's visit Mr. Boynton's auto, delivering the gardens are -drying up to this time Mr. and Mrs. Charies Bixby and in Maine. goods. early Wednesday morning, no relief daughter Ruth returned from thefr Frank P. Dyer and family of Ar- Gauze Lisie Hose There is a shortage of milk in Gro- being in sight. ' vacation on Saturday. ington are occupying the Gerry cot­ • ton. 'I Arthur G. Fuller was a victim of Mr. and Mrs. .1. T. Shepley return­ tage for the. summer. Special fine quaHty,;donble heel and toe, sizes'8y2, 9, 914, 10, The new double tracks on the Bos­ the heat last week, being, we hear, ed last week from a Vermont trip; '• A. H. Seaver and family of Arling­ .'•-'.•"".'•- Price, 371/26 3 pairs for S1.00 prostrated b.v it. ton and Maine is being laid with good Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Dudley arid ton are now occupying their bunga­ progress, reaching at this time north A consultation of Dr. Priest and son were recent visitors in Beverly.' low. Mr. Seaver underwent a very- ASK FOR Dr. Kilbourn in the case of S. R. serious operation in the winter and from the station at a point on the A painful accident was experienced Mason was held last Saturday. The has been a very sick man. but now railroad not far from the bridge near by Andrew Blood last Sunday, when, Mrs. Barrows. report was not favorable. that he has got where he can breathe about midnight, he essayed to move the pure air on Prospect hill, he is Four Italians, laborers on the rail­ . - ' Mrs. J. E. Adams went to Milford, from one chamber to .another and gaining every,day. . Wilheimina Corsets -N."H*.;"Monday, as her little grandson, road, were overcome by the great heat stepping info"space instead/landed in Model No.* 888; Zona Reducing ..'. .77 .;. 81 50 Charles E. Dugas, was taken sudden­ last week and taken to the Groton the hall below. Dr. Priest was quick­ Mr; and Mrs. Harry Newell and two ly ill. hospital. ly summoned and pronounced no children of Springfield were in Still Model No. 880, Long Hip Style ^...... |l!oo Miss Carrie Stevens was a recent Rev. C. W. Loomis of Ashby will bones broken, though a multitude of River on Tuesday afternoon. Still River is Mr. Newell's native town. guest of Mrs. P. J. Benedict, conclud­ preach at the Congregational church sprains and bruises makes moving ing her visit on Monday of this week. next Sunday in exchange with the extremely difficult. Mr. Blood is to Mrs. H. D. Stone has an aunt and Mrs. Dresser, mother, of Mrs. George pastor. be congratulated upon his escape from grandniece from Toledo, Ohio, visit­ more serious injury. ing her. Gingham and L. Boynton. is visiting another daugh- At the regular meeting of the grange . ter, Mrs. Severance, of Lowell. on Tuesday night there was a small HABVAED. SHIELEY. Solomon Fletcher is unable to work attendance owing to the extreme heat, but all who heard Samuel Taylor of Seersucker Petticoats and is under the doctor's care. Xews Items. Westford speak on "The magnitude Brush Fires. ' Mrs. Lena Cooper, with her daugh­ Fifteen of our young men took an Omghamsat ... 50^ 75*, SI* md SB* ter Aria of Clinton, was an over Sun- of the universe," were glad to endure One of the largest brush fires Shir­ such heat in order to listen to the, auto trip to Revere beach on Wednes­ ley ever had took plae • on Thursdav Seersucker, whjte and colored at ..;...... 89* and 98* • day visitor of her sister, Mrs. Ar­ interesting address which was instruc­ day evening. They enjoyed the trip when five hundred acres of brush thur A. Wood. Her daughter, Miss very much, but the after effects were tive as well as infresting to a very land and young growth was burned Aria Cooper, remained for a little not so agreeable. Some of the boys high degree. The grange sang their over. The fire started in Lunenburg say it was the lobster, but whatever longer visit after her mother's return song "Old Glory." and further exer- in the rear of the Tremblev farm and O. M. O it w'as it is "never again" for some home. | cises were dispensed with. spreading rapidly the alarm was z,ouave of them. "Shute" was the only one Theodore Everett of the Everett j George Prescott, who was over- sounded in Shirley at nine o'clock in Press, Boston, who, with his wife and who proved immune to the dissipa­ the morning, and before night the j come with the heat last week, was tion. two daughters were recent guests of j out .again in a lew days, but using second and third alarms was rung in Dress Shields the Misses Vickery of Pleasant street, •necessary tare about 'the high tem- To the "Night before boys," Mr. calling for more men to stop the on­ have concluded their visit, driving ] perature. Thayer wishes to say that he will ward march of the flames. Fire Made special to wear with kimono sleeve shirt waists, oyer the road to their home in Arling- greatly appreciate the return of his warden John E. L. Hazen, realizing Price, 50*£ per pair ton. j Mrs. Boynton heard from her son Acme harrow 6r the information as to the seriousness of the situation, se­ | William by letter which was written • A daughter was born to Mr. and where he can find it as he is fight­ cured the services of nearly one hun­ | on board the boat and dated July 4. ,"Mrs. Abram Miller of Champney ing weeds and can use it to good dred men from the two factories, the ; He reported that they had made so • street, at the Groton hospital on advantage just at present. This seems C. A. Edgarton Co., and the Samson Corset Covers ! far a good trip and a much mors en­ Cordage Works. Thursday, July 6. to be only a reasonable request, and joyable one than he and his com- For warm weather, made of white ripplette, do not have if not incumbent on the boys then whv' The fire spread into Lancaster and A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.! rades had anticipated on board the not? to be ironed, hamburg and lace trimmed, sizes •James F. Stevenson of Champney j cattle boat, was wending its way eastward to- street on Friday, July 7. The little Mrs. H. L. Norton and children re­ war* the Shirley Industrial school 36, 38, 40, Chief Riley made a raid on Augustus boy is named Amos Lawrence Steven­ turned from a European visit of three when a large force of boys from the Moulton on Wednesday night. son. years, in the Franconia. on its last school, under the supervision of the Price, 50^ Miss Phyllis Roache is spending a guards, turned out to fight the fire. James Anderson, who was working trip. Mr. Norton returned with them, pleasant vacation with her friend, having made the trip over, starting The area of tbe burned district was in-Nashua, was overcome with the Miss Louise Boynton. on May 16, on the Ivernia, which was fully three miles, extending from the SPECIAL SALE OF heat last week and taken to Nashua Mrs. C. Z. Southard left on Mon­ wrecked at Queenstown. They are reservoir, taking all of Tophet swamp, hospital. He returned home to Gro­ here to spend the season at Green- -Cowdrey hi]l and all adjoining land. ton last Saturday. day mornins for the White Moun­ tains. croft, their summer home, on the Fully three hundred or more men The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ayer road. They were accompanied in the afternoon were engaged in JHeadle of .Pleasant_ street is quite ill. Miss Mildred E. Gilson. Miss Doris -by-F-rl Hoffing, a graduate German fighting.the fire and residents of Lan­ Peabody and Miss Mildred Brown Mr. Headle is assistant station aseiu teacher. Mrs.: Daniel S. Howard of caster road, the Sanderson, Linder- TrimiMM have decided to take the entrance ex­ *af The Groton station. Brockton. Mrs. Norton's mother, is berg and Parker families were busy- aminations to Simmons college for packing their furniture, making prep­ During the thunder storm of last this eoming fall. visiting them. Until August 1, at Greltly Reduced week Thursday afternoon, a tree on arations to move out their goods. William Savage and wife from New the Pepperell road just beyond Air. Mrs. Nesbii L. Woods and chil­ The C. A. Edgarton Company held Prices, to Make Way for dren are going to spend the month York city are out on a two-weeks' their trucking teams all the afternoon Duprey's, was struck. A fire kindled vacation, and are spending a nart of which smouldered until discovered and jcf AuS»st at Fortune's Rock, Me. near these residences to offer any as­ Irs ,f H it with his mother, Mrs. S. J. Savag?. sistance that might be needed. the fire alarm given at three o'clock! .^ - - - Manning, writing to here in town. on Saturday afternoon. The fire com- j friends in Groton from Colorado Those engaged in fighting the fire pany were at work there until two j Springs, says they are having a fine While alighting from an auto in included the Lancaster, Lunenburg o'clock on Sunday morning. The"fire itime- and ou that day of writin- had which she had been pleasure driving, and Shirley fire departments, assisted My New Fall Stock had burned a foot deep on account f:climbed p'kes peak, Mrs. Mary Farwell fell and broke a by the boys from the Industrial school 0 small bone in the hip joint which will the dry condition of the ground. There is a man in Groton, who says,- and about ISO or more of the resi­ confine her to her bed for two weeks dents of Shirley. The men all worked Herbert XV. Mason came home on i speaking of his bee experiences, that or more. Mrs. Farwell's recovery is Monday afternoon on account of the a.t on.e time n<* was stung so badly- well and at four o'clock on Friday necessarily slower on account of rer morning had the fire at every point serious condition of his father, S. R. that he. lost all his rheumatism, all advancing years. Mason. He is on a furlough from the his asthma and all his religion. under control, the heaw dew'during Miss Ethel K. Bruce U. S. S. Idaho, now at the Philadel­ A Norma! rom-w in shortlm;,.! bv Mrs, X. C. Howell. Mrs. H. O. Hoff­ the night helping materially in check- phia navy yard. mall is off.-i-.-d i,-, young pe.>|.!.- ::, this man and her children, and Mrs. Fred In? it. However, a number of men vicinity. s>... ii,|vi-rtl*ement. • Howell, who have been at Harvard were kept in the fire district on Fri­ Mrs. Priest is steadilPhelpy improvings Building. , Ayer Miss Hutchins, in a letter from her day, to prevent, if possible, any fur­ of whom were inexperienced, four A Letter. for the past few weeks, have returned .Miss Lillian Garlich Is spending her friend, Mrs. Douglass, of Seattle, to their city homes. ther serious results from its breaking acres of an orchard were stacked out Wash., hears that in that city on July In a letter received from summer vacation with Ella Furbush. in perfect lines in all directions and lames R. Miss Emily Whitney is visiting with out again. the people were wearing their win-*) Hawkes at Roque. Island Me., on Miss .Mary Hager has gone to Har­ 130 trees planted in less than eight ter coats. Thursday. July 13, he says: her uncle and family, Luk-> Farmer, at The Woodsville fire also broke out vard to assist in the care of Mrs. hours. Allerton. "We arc surprised to learn of the again on Thursday morning, this time Mary Farwell who broke a bone in her Basing the estimate upon the re­ Miss Mary A. Dunphy left on Mon­ on the Dodge place. The expense to day for Hyannis to attend the summer intense heat in Groton. While vou Mrs. F. R. Preston and Merrill Pres­ hip recently. Mrs. Farwell is eighty- sults obtained in the demonstration ton visited this week with the form­ Shirley in fighting these two fires Normal school session. Miss Lillian were having it 102° and 103°, Mrs. 1 eight years of age. orchards, it is possible for anyone to Hawkes and myself were toasting er's sister, Mrs. Paul Morrison, at within the pas' two weeks will fieur- establish orchards with hired help Kane also left .Monday for the same up to hundreds of dollars. ' school. our shins before a fire in a good old- Barnet. "Vt. Cost of Planting Orchards. in almost any part of the state at a fashioned fireplace with plenty of Harold Stanley Pollard, who is with it will be of Interest to the people cost not greatly exceeding $12 per Mrs. Helen Eddy Christensen is ac­ Center. birchwood so cheery and bright." We Mr. Pulitzer, owner of the of this vicinity who are thinking of acre for small areas and proportion­ companying her husband. Arthur O. came here on June 30, leaving Monu­ World, at present in Maine waters, The Alliance will meet with Mrs. ately less as the area increases. Christensen. coming north from Mex­ establishing orchards In the near fu­ ment Beach on June 29, and as yet took a few days' leave of absence Henry F. Grout on next Thursdav af­ ture to know the cost of starting and Where extensive orchards are being ico. At this time of writing they are ternoon. there has been no day that has been from his work and visited here with caring for young orchards. One of planted it is possible to reduce the In New York city. At their place of uncomfortabe—just warm and lovely his father and household. cost of preparation and planting to residence in Mexico. Mrs. Christensen the purposes of the demonstration or­ weather. We find the water just a- On Thursday, July 6. occurred the BOXBOROUGH. chards established by the Massachu­ six cents per tree when planted twen­ was the only white woman iwi"E little t0° cold for bathing with pleas­ ty feet apart. seven hundred inhabitants. During death of Florence M. Barrett, aged 43 Xews Items. setts Agricultural college is to collect ure—no night but one or more yrs. 4 mos. and 24 days. She was the data on the cost of the various oper­ Another interesting bit of informa­ the recent rebellious times. Mrs. blankets are necessary. We are right wife of Henry Barrett, who is sec Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stanton were ations connected with orcharding. tion that has been obtained from the Christensen saw people shot down in on the water's edge; we do not want tion foreman at Harvard station. She Week-end guests at John Cobleigh'iC Eight orchards have been planted demonstration orchards is the cost the streets. At one time Mr. Christen­ to send a shiver down any one's back, sen was arrested. These experiences has been an Invalid for several vears. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richardson thus far, and while the cost of plant­ of the operations incident to the first but according to the account in the Funeral was at the home and burial welcomed a baby daughter to the fam­ ing varies in diflerent places, owjng were most thrilling and what no other Landmark, some of you would like year's- growth, and the possible re­ was at Ludlow, Vt. ily on July 10. to the types of soil and labor con­ Groton girl ever passed through. one. turns from associated crops planted. ditions, the data available covers The data from three orchards shows Miss Clara Smith is spending her The Ladles' Picnic club met at the • Mr. and Mrs. Oooch and familv left There are about 1500 acres in this Memorial rooms on Wednesda> on July 7, for Casro Castle. nearly every condition found in the the cost of caring for trees and the vacation at the home of her aunt. Miss island. They have quite a large faTm state excepting where land has to be -Mr. Poland has just had a new tele­ associated crops to vary from $75 to M. j. Shattuck. with a lot of stock, sheep and poultry. Rev. Lyman Greenman and family cleared. from Yonkers, N. Y„ are taking their phone put into his house. 19-14; also $156, and the value of the associated The young son of James Griffin of So much of tho woods is kept cleared The cost of preparing five acres of crops was sufficient to cover the ex­ usual summer vacation at their cot­ Mr. Dudley and Mr. Parker, Ayer, was operated on for appendi­ of small stuff that they are beauti­ land and planting the trees thereon penses that the net cost of establish­ tage on Greenman's Island, Rare hill i Mrs. Henry Lawrence and Helen citis last week Wednesday at Groton ful to go through and one can enjoy varies from $40 to $59.75. This varia­ ing and caring for the orchard one pond. •have gone to Maine to visit the Wil­ hospital. He is making a good re­ a fine drive of two or three miles tion is easily explained. In the first year, which included preparation of covery. through deep woods. Fred Wetherbee, Jr., is here with his son family, who formerly lived across instance the land has. been in plowed tho land, planting the trees, and a Arthur J. Clough of Lawrence acad­ The cliffs, beaches and caves all parents for a few days. He came on the road from them. Mrs. Lawrence crops the year previous, the men to reasonable fertilizer bill, was- under emy, with his family, are stopping at around the Island are more beautiful Wednesday from New. York with his left her youngest daughter, Ruth, with do the planting were more accustom­ four dollars per acre. In tho other motor cycle to escape the hot wave in Sandy pond. than words can describe."' its grandmother, Mrs. R. Y. Nelson ed to that kind of *work.and the own­ orchard, one aero of strawberries had ' Mrs. Hawkes adds her pleasant that city. He expects to return next They are to enjoy a two-weeks' stay Mrs. Charles Dodge of Hoilis street er was more continuously ln direct been planted the year before and with words telling of the superb fishing week. Is having town water Introduced into Mrs. Willard Fowler has returned charge. Most of the orchards were the other associated -crops yielded a her house. where the finny game weighs any­ VW11 Bagster of Somerville is visit­ to her cottage with her family con­ established for less than $52. The net profit of twenty-five dollars per where from three to twenty pounds. ing for this week-end with his grand­ stating of Ethel Fowler. Clarence orchard on which $59.75 was expend­ acre. Abel Lawrence was overcome by the Lobsters and clams are' secured in mother and aunts at Mrs. Thomas Fowler, Rudolph Willard and Mr ed for preparing the land and plant­ Without doubt, an orchard started heat while working in his garden on abundance. A sail daily in a yacht for Bagster's. Fowler, We have Just learned that ing, was established on larul that had Monday. His condition was such as In Massachusetts and given proper two hours going around the bay is the accident of the Federal express been in sod for 'some time and was to require the attendance of his phy­ Daniel Sheehan, Jr., who has been care,can be made to pay for Itself delightful. The scenery is also de­ at Bridgeport, Conn., July 11, was sufficiently stony to make the digging sician. According to thc latest reports In Canada the past few weeks as and yield something in the way of lightful and altogether our recent being driven by a new engineer In he is getting along comfortably. chauffeur, was at home for Wednes­ of holes -a .difficult task. Then, -too. Interest on the investment before the chairman of Groton board of select­ day and Thursday of this week. He Mr. Fowler's place, while he was tak­ tho land was prepared and trees plant­ orchard comes to bearing. A horse owned by Harlow & Par­ men and bis attractive, better half are leaves again for work this week. His ing a vacation of a much needed rest. ed with hired help, at a cost of• fifty sons of Ayer, while on the Groton having fully as comfortable a time as party came from Montreal by tho way J R: Y. Nelson is to sell his cattle on cents per hour for man and team, and route, was overcome by heat last .--'. . ^w AdTertlsements. they would have in the torrid heat of of New Hampshire to Maine, through Saturday, July 15. seventeen and one-half to twenty Tuesday, but was able, after resting old Groton. cents, per hour for man. In all cases FOR SAI.K—A long:, narrow . Mead­ eastern Maine, stopping at Old Or­ Miss Flossie Moore has been visit­ In the barn of E. C. Clark, to return the cost- of labor was figured at pre­ ow, containing; about Ave acres, some to Ayer later in the day. West Groton. ' chard to Boston. He has enjoyed his ing at Mr. and Mrs. Barteaux's. wood. . Bounded on tho east »!de> by trio exceedingly. vailing prices. -As; in'all orchard oper­ St.'Vv?,rJBrook- Ea»>r of access.-LOUISA E. O. Proctor of Ayer, has sold a Henry Powers of Lynn is visiting There was a very good attendance ation the cost depends' larigely .upon •PRIEST, Boxboro-usjh, Mass.... -2t44 ' Last Sunday,. Richard Crossley and 1 P yer me tI BuicX roadster to H. H. Richards, a hi? aunt, Mrs; E. P. Shores. SLfJ * v? « nK held at John tbe speed at- which men work and Everett Morse rode their wheels to ' master at Groton School. '•" Wbitcombs, considering that it was where the owner is present who is WAIjTko—An Experienced. Trusty Mrs: M. J.'Shepley of Waltham is Worcester . and toojc dinner with a very hot night- . , Housekeeper, 26 to 60 years of age, for Mrs. J. E. Adams returned home the. guest this week of her sister, also a good manager of Wen, the cost ar family-of-three In Still River. ..for *g.V . friends of the former, returning the ipur weeks, commencing- on Julv 22. from Milford, N: H:. leaving little Mrs. W. F. Lane. .vMlM^Illdred Hager hag returned to can be greatly-reduced. -In one case wa e t0 same day, they having covered about W horde In Somerville, the rest stay- S?'ST, ? " fitfbt person. Apply baby Dugas better from his Illness. Miss Mary Doran lit Fitcfiburg sixty miles. where representatives' of-the" college J" MR?- ADDIE TURNER, Still -River. in g for another week. -. • were present; wnh a

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-iS** "3$' '-^T^i*A >?&£siss& .x><£* m- **?WS -*J. *-/? ill AdTertlgements Appear la\Ah the .tion in New Hampshire, and the fojlr A, J. Clough, principal of "l^wrence P'Connell, who was one of the police Sine Papers ire Publish. \ •younger children at Melrose.- £S»: ioT'e^l "JL.5* J2?' **» «-? "I ~U .at VK. ST The circulation of onr^ nine papers Is • Chester.-.E. Lord has heea'"trans­ daughter; Shady cottage, Mr. and Mre. Dn July 4. They pleaded not guilty, ferred to Worcester, where he will be Harry W. Dunphee of Shirley and her ibut were found guilty. Each was ten times larger than that of any other engineer on a switching, engine...,;,. mother; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Sil- •fined !I»OB the liquor charge, and in paper, circulating in the nine towns. -. Mrs. Henrietta S. Roe and daughter, berbeg and their five children are at addition Di Pjetro was flned $25 for Miss Nettie B. -Roe*, left last Satur­ the McNerny cottage; Lawrence cot­ Subscribers are urged to keep their assault on ihe-offlcer,- Sentence -was 'PHONE 86=3 subscriptions-paid in advance.' day for the Isles of ".Shoals, where tage, Mr. and* Mrs. A. E. Lawrence suspended until October 8. they will spend their vacation. Dur­ and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lawrence '."TIs to the Pen and Press we mortals ing Miss Roe's absence, her place at of Hoboken, N. Y., and their families; David Gordon of Boston was found owe, the bank will be taken by Miss Alice Mr. and MrB. John L. 'Kennlson and guilty oi peddling without a lice'nse at for AU we believe and almost all we P. Sanderson. son Lawrence are at Camp Rocky Shirley. Thursday morning, and was know." Point; Mr. and MTS. G. G. Puffer and fined t«-n dollars Hire The .alarm from box 5, shortly be­ Saturday, July 15, 1911. daughter. Miss -Mabel Puffer, are at William A. Cooper,of Townsend was fore one o'clock on Thursday after­ the Puffer cottage; at Shady Camp ,foui:f Groton and probation system effective and pro­ Bargains Industrial school. No trace of the for Ayer, she stumbled and fell heavily their families. ductive of good results to the state girls could be found, but the chief re­ on the concrete at the depot and re­ and the individual in whose behalf the ceived word on Monday afternoon that ceived a severe shaking up and several law was passed. In order to meet the school authorities had received in­ bruises. A Visit to Hoosac Tunnel. these ends, the courts feel it I their duty to so act in regard to those who Read Them formation from the Fitchburg police Eva Lillian Washburn, the oldest As the, guests of the Boston and that William Skelton, the missing boy, daughter of Mr. and "Mrs." "John "B. violate the provisions of their proba­ Maine railroad, a party of two hun­ tion that they will not do so again, had given himself up to the-police of Washburn, died at the home of her dred newspaper men from all parts that city. parents on Wednesday afternoon, af­ and that speedy and effective punish­ of the state visited the Hoosac tunnel ment shall be meted out to them when Miss Grace E. Downing: left-on Wed­ ter a two-weeks' illness of tubercular on a tour of inspection on Tuesday. NEW PERFECTION WICK BLUE FLAME. OIL STOVE meningitis. She was a native of they fail to. fulfill their terms of their nesday for New Hampshire where she The party, headed by T. E. Byrnes, probation. 3 burner .,...." «QKO will remain several weeks visiting- Fitchburg. where she wag born on Frank Barr, vice pres.; E. A. Ryder," relatives and friends ih Laconia, Weirs September 2, 1899, and six years ago secretary to the president; Howard _ , $9.o(r and New Hampton. came to this town with her parents. A. Moulton of the press department LITTLETON. Besides her parents, she leaves three of the New York, New Haven and 2 burner 17 m, Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Beverly -• • - 1 .OO brothers—Albion A., Charles L., Ken­ Hartford railroad and other officials, News Items. have as guests this week, Mrs. Dudley neth E., and one sister, Gertrude E. left the Xorth station in Boston on a DANGLER WICKLESS Hollis and Mjss Alice Hollis of Ber­ Washburn. The funeral was held at special train at 8.30 a. m., stops en­ Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw of Brook­ muda. her home yesterday afternoon at three route being made at Ayer, Fitchburg, lyn, X. Y., have been the guest of 3 burner «c e^ The Unitarian Alliance will have his grandmother, Mrs. Maria Shaw, -•••••'••..«• a. Moth superintendent, D. W. Mason, housekeeper, Mrs. William Wright.'of this" town, but for several years! jj^^'-i:^'"'""^'"^^ xx-ere among .the number who were The seventeenth annual convention ; M e 0> 1 h d is still after the pests. In spite of arr'ested. about four weeks ago here of the Xational Jobbing Confectioners' and her daughter Mildred, are at'the past" he "has'lived with"his""son Kd-1 ?°F £ 7 £' !'1 ^Ki *^f°!r*** •„ all that can be done, the moths are for threatening to do bodily harm to association was held in Boston on \ P Prmant >ir,mo ,. , i r» i . T-I- *,. . ira G. • Dwlnell will continue tht* very numerous. The elm leaf beetle a freight conductor on the Fitchburg July 12, 13 and 14. On Thursday, J. A. r. i onant home. ! ward in Roxbury. Death was due to! business and pay all the debts of said Is particularly destructive and many division who ordered them off the H. Manderschied, the candy man, was Mrs. Edward F. Chamberlain audi the intense heat and old age. He had i partnership and Is authorised to <5oI- Ioct X' elm trees bear plainly the marks of train. ' a suest of the Lowney Chocolate Co., daughterEast Oranges an, dX .Mis J., sarrive Persed o in.Jacob town* onof! yearnearl. y Besidereaches d his hisos n ninetv-eightin Roxburyh. a»"claims iRduAe toG .sai DWINELd partnershipU . these destroyers. at their oflice. Commercial and Han­ Monday. he has one son George in Holyoke. I THOMAS G MOORE. Some one entered the home of Mr. over streets, where a banquet was Ayer. July ?., J911. , . ltl* * * if Superintendent Louis H. Cushing of and Mrs. Fred Simonds between last Misses Annie and Esther Hod n! the Lowell and Fitchburc street rail­ served, after which the party was Cambridge have been visiting rela­ Death. week Monday morning and Friday taken to Mansfield to visit the exten­ I Pitman Shorthand by Mail way, with Mrs. Cushing and their son tives in town this week. Mrs. Orin Wing entered peacefully A competent arid experienced teacher Harold, are spending a vacation at noon and stole a sum of money be­ sive grounds and factory of the into rest last week Thursday night longing to Mrs. Simonds. Xo trace Ixjwney Co., dining at the Mansfield The Littleton grange went in a '>! Pitman SteriogrraprO' Is organizing a Harwichport. During Mr. Cushing's barge to Pepperell on Wednesday m after about three years of gradual de­ Normn! Claim to bo conducted by cor­ absence the affairs of the road will be of the thief has been found. tavern, owned b.v the company. cline. She was eighty-one years of respondence, supplemented by weekly Dwinell-Moore Co., who have been attend the annual field day exercises personal lessons. Only those will be conducted by H. W. Green, president, Friday, Mr. Manderschied attended of the Xorth Middlesex-Worcester Po­ age and had been married sixty years accepted as members of this class who of Gloversville, X. Y. conducting a grocery store in Phelps' the banquet given by tho company at the day before her death. During her ore frfaduatcs of high, schools Tuition building, dissolved partnership last mona. will be very moderate. Apply by letter Mrs. William E. Wheeler intends to their headquarters and < njoyed a trip long illness she received the affection­ week Friday. Mr. Moore retires from to Point Shirley. Ovcr-xirre hundred Miss Lora Barnes of Gill, has he n the ate and most failhful'care of TieT ill your nwn haniivsTllInf- to JXKSK. BOX- leave for Old Orchard, Me., today to guest of .Mrs. A. W. Knowlton this the firm owing to poor health Mr. of Lowney's salemen are enjoying ; daughter Susie, who has been almost *o. Harvard, Mass. 3m44 join her daughter, Miss Lillian Wheel­ Dwinell will carry on the business. week. er, who is at her cottage for the sea­ these outings. E. O. Richardson, form­ j constantly at her mother's bedside. son. Mrs. Charles H. Hardy, who return­ erly of Ayer. being one of the num­ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mc.Murtrie are Funeral services were held at her ed from Nashua hospital last w large family well-known and due to the.infirmities incident to age comb lost,, forty-three. Other poul­ Mrs. W. B. Cotton has been made charged with a similar- offence, was try men.lost a few pf their birds. highly, reelected for nobility of char­ Cholera Morbus and and the intense heat. While a rest much more comfortable for a week or continued from last'Saturday until acter. She was a devoted wife and dent here, he was Engaged in the bust . During the thunder shower last moro by living In a tent which has today. James Shaugnessy, who until week Thursday evening, Arthur mother, an Ideal home maker, and a si m i Iar trou bles. ness of a market man, carrying fruits, been placed in the yard at her home. •recently'was proprietor of the Taylor truely worthy and deserving woman. poultry, etc., to the Boston markets. Drew's camp, Grand.View, was struck 'ST She occupies It day and night. She house, was arrested in Framingham by lightning and considerable damage For bowel troubles He* taught a short time at the Sandy Is quite feeble, but has enjoyed being on "Monday at the request of the Abont Town. pond'school, and also at the Woods was done. A screen door and a win­ out-of-doors during the excessive local police department. After the dow casing were torn off, and in every Monday, Edward Chamberlain »and aff lictirig Engineers Village school in his younger days. heat. recent liquor raid at tho above hotel, family of East Orange, N. J., came to The remains were taken to Littleton room the floor was covered with and Firemen it has Miss Doris Fletcher went to Lud­ Shaugnessy suddenly disappeared. He silvers of wood. Although the light­ their ; summer stopping place, - Mrs. for interment last week Friday in was released on $200 ball. Ho appear­ Jacobs'"rooms. Westlawn cemetery. He leaves two low, Vt., yesterday, where she will ning played about In every part of the no equal. ' •. " W spend a fortnight with her aunt, Mrs. ed In court on Tuesday and he was cabin and approached within two feet Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw of Brook­ sons—Edward'of. Roxbury, and George held for trial today under the-same of Holyoke. George Moore. of the dining table where the-family lyn, N. Y., have been here to his Letters remninlnsr uncalled for at the bonds.. were eating, no one suffered.anything grandfather's, Charles Houghton,'the It 'mijght7\WeI&/.bfe Misses* Alice and Marguerite Rand Aycr postofflce for the week ending more than a slight shock, and no past week. July 10: Clin* Collins, Mrs. Harry Dun­ Thomas Bast, James Mof-st. Michael aro visiting' their aunt, Mrs. Frank Oeqes, Albert Hone, Aaron Orner. heavy-damage to property followed. Mr. and-Mrs.'Arthur Greenough of ^called the Railroad?' Messer of Pepperell. Th6y" are the phee; tan Fartcrnbrg. Jan Novlckl. A Normal course In .shorthand by John Korst and Joe Denes, all of Hon.. and Mrs. Frank A. Patch'ar­ Derry, N. H., were over Sunday and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. O. C.Rand. mall In offered to young people In this Westford, charged with indecent ex­ rived home on Wednesday after tour­ Monday visitors at his brother's here, Man's friend. -7-V, Mr. and Mrs. William Chaffe and vicinity. See advertisement. • posure, were in court last Saturday. ing 1550 miles b.v auto into western A. F. Hopkins. son- of Holyoke, are guests -at. the At the Congregational church the Their cases were continued until today. New York. The automobile was never home of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Webb. •• Pastor will speak at tho morning serv­ Mrs. Amy Wakefield has gone to 25c. and 50c. ice on "Seeking God." and at the even­ Fines aggregating, $175 were im­ for a moment out of commission, and Toppan Beach, near Bath, Me., for -Miss Mabel Gray of Maiden is visit­ ing service at 6.30. on thc character of posed on Michael. Di Pietro and his everything went well. They describe several weeks' stop, where her broth­ ing her aunt, Mrs. Edward J.- Holden. Moses. wife, Mary Dl'Pietro by Judge Atwood Vine Valley. as a prosperous section er-in-law, Judge .Hardy, has a sum­ -.-"Mr! and Mrs. C. H. Vlall ah* on a last Saturday morning. Thc two de­ bf country with plenty of wheat, mer ' cottage. '. vacation to points in the western, part Sandy Pond." grapes and cherries, but the hay crop '-^v-"'* fendants were arraigned on the Mrs. Hattie Whltcomb. from Somer­ of the state and through- the Berk- The cottages at Sanmond was Wing, Sunday.

'>s5> -Lt ^ 'ku ii. *;.*• Z.'AAl.ii'' -t^&ttlL- IttSplI^^ m-'-.-t W:WM--; SHIRLEY. Purest Fire. tenter. ',.;-., -'••'; One of the worst''forest fires that the Center^ has . ever experienced A. A. Fillebrown sold the standing broke out on Friday and lasted for grass on the Henry Ji. Holden farm four days, destroying a large amount Oualit^ Stdires^ I^bS at public auction on last Saturday of property. The Are broke out on Tho standing grass on the Buckmlns- Friday morning, and is supposed to Serve QualityIce Cream ter place at the North was sold at have started from a large white oak auction on. the same afternoon: __,_L_. tree which-was struck by llghtninij _y^*'n_eve£ the sign of the Jersey Ice CreamVdiapjayed iu a The Girls' Sewing Guild held a spe­ the night before. The Shirley fire de­ drugstbre.confectionery or ice cream parlor it'is an assurance cial meeting on the common on Fri­ partment were called and got it under that the ice cream served is the best you can buy, and it will day afternoon of last week to decide control after about ten cords of wood be served Tight.' ' • BOSTON BOSTON BOSTON about the annual fair. It was decided had been burned and about ten acres to hold tho. fair either on August 3 of brush land burned over. On Fri­ Jersey Ice Cream is found in the stores of up-to-date, wide­ or 4. There is to be an entertainment day the fire was wholly confined to awake dealers whose methods of handling are the cleanest and Will Reopen Sept 5th in the evening, followed by a social the land at Woodsvllle owned by'L. whose facilities for keeping ice cream in perfect condition are Persons desirous of becoming competent and successful Accountants, dance. Marian L. Holden was elected J. Farnsworth.. The portable'mill was £j the best. While costing them more, they know secretary of the Guild to fill the place located on, this land last winter and Book-keepers, Stenographers, Secretaries, or Commercial Teachers, of Ruth JI. Graves, who has gone to the whole lot Is covered with' rows of with assurance of employment, will find in the Cottage City for the summer^ . brush, four or five feet high, making Porter Adams of Boston spent Sun­ n regular fire trap. Jersey lee Cream day with his grandparents, Mr. and On Saturday morning the fire broke BRYANT & STRATTON Mrs. Albert Adams. out again and raged all day Saturday Is the best grade of ice cream they can serve their customers. It is in spite of the efforts of the fire de­ guaranteed pure because it is made of rich, tested cream from our Ver­ Elsie Holden, Ruth Graves and Rob­ mont creameries, pure fruit flavors and extracts and the best cane sugar ert Evans left town on Saturday for partment and about sixty volunteers. COMMERCIAL SCHOOL Fifty cords, of wood was burned and Combined with our sixteen years exfwience in making, the result is-ice Cottage City, Oak Bluffs, where they . cream of delicious smoothness of texture and richness of flavor-al- have obtained positions in the hotel nearly one hundred acres of land rttyi free from lumps,.salt or bit. of ice. Made in our absolutely hy­ run by Elsie J. Bohanon of Nashua. burned- over, all being the property of gienic factory and packed and shipped in perfectly clean cans. BOSTON They are to stay all summer. . L. J. Farnsworth. On Saturday morn­ - Look for the Jersey sign and learn How good ice cream can ing the fire started toward the • mill really be. Now Located in its New School Building, 334 Boylston Street Mr. and Mrs. Frank Longley of Low­ and .basket shop of Henry\Farnsworth ell were guests of S. LeRoy Longley A most desirable opportunity for study and practice in fifty-foot jumps, but was finally JERSEY ICE CREAM CO over Sunday. stopped after hard fighting. under the direction and supervision of a large corps of Florence Barbour of Wollaston is Sunday, the fire department was Lawrence, Mass.. Well Known and Experienced Teachers spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. again galled out for the same fire. Charles E. Goodspeed. Several acres of land known as the COURSES OF STUDY y. Arthur W. Smith of Wollaston oc­ Dodge pasture were burned over be­ cupied the pulpit at Trinity chapel fore the fire was gotten under con­ on Sunday afternoon. Rev. A. A. trol. OENEHVUCOMMEIvaAL COURSE .STENOORAPHIC COURSE Bronsdon of the village will give the On Monday the fire again started SECRETARIAL COURSE CIVIL SERVICE COURSE rmoor address on Sunday, July 16, at 2:15 up, burning a fine young growth of COMMERCIAL TEACHERS COURSE p. m. white pine belonging to Henry Dodge. Mrs. Ware of Brookline spent Sat­ The shower of Monday afternoon dis­ urday at her house here. Mr. Ware pelled all danger of- a fresh breaking Mattresses Every possible requisite is afforded for personal safety, rapid progress, is still very ill, but is slowly improv­ out. with cheerful and healthful surroundings: ing. •'.-..- L. J. Farnsworth and Henry Dodge at are the losers, everything beinf' a r, This school does not employAgents, Solicitors, Canvassers, or Runners. Forrest Wing, who has been spend­ Persons who cannot call for personal interview may have printed infor­ total loss. On Saturday the heat was ing a few days with Mr. and Mrss.o great that in some places even the mation of terms and conditions by mail. Albert Adams, has returned to. hisdir t -burned and oak trees six inches Factory Prices H. E. HIBBARD, Principal, 334 Boylston St, Boston. home in Roxbury. In diameter were burned through and •»»»»00»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» ••••••»•»»»>••••! Dr. and Mrs. Giles and Mr., and fell to the ground. Mrs. Smith and son of Chelsea were ATTRACTIVE VARIETY OF DESIRABLE FARMS guests of Harry Stone for the week-* Clipping. end. Sad news was received here when Complete Assortmen I can show you all kinds,-from 250 acres down, and from $30,000 down The Misses Shaw and party of a telegram nrrived- last week anwmnfc. to ?500. You will be surprised to know how many farms are for sale and friends are spending a short vacation ing the:"3hooting of Otis Evans. Later of telegram's announce that he isgetting for good reasons, often that are no fault of the farm. Such are the kind at the house owned b.v C. C. Lane of Cambridge. better and' is able to sit up. Mrs. I like to work ou. Evans and daughter Mildred left tov;n Mr. and Mrs. Scott and little grand­ FUR1TURE, CARPETS Did you know that within two miles of this busy U.pot $2,.>00 will buy on Tuesday for Irwin, i'a., to get Otis daughter, Eliza J„ who have been and bring hlra home when he is-able over sixty acres with good house and farm buildings, variety of fruit, wood staying at Elsie Kirov's, left last to travel.. Thc whole story of the and some timber? week fop Andover.. * affair Is told In the following clipping and WILL PAPERS Dr. Savage of Boston spent last from the Republican Standard of Ir That $2,000 will buy forty acres all equipped with tools, horse, large week -fith Elsie Pray at the Barnard win, Pa.: Our Floor Coverings in Axminster, Tapestry and Ores Bugs in orchard, wood and fine seven-room cottage in fine repair. ' cottage. "Tony Yuditsky, a striking miner all sizes made, together witli a strong line of Inlaid and Printed That $5,000 takes a splendid Harvard farm with splendid house con­ Rufus Hardon of Lynn spent Sun­ and said to be a deputy sheriff, has Linoleum and Oil Cloth, combined with Straw Matting and Fiber taining* all modern improvements and an up-to-date'outside equipment with day with the Burnhams at the East. been arrested and lodged in jail at Carpets make a desirable line to select from. 225 prime apple trees. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Psay-are Greensburg "with a charge of feloni­ spending several days this week in ous shooting lodged against him, and Inquirers waiting for less hot air, hut we'll soon be able to talk again, Boston. may be held to face the charge of de so send in your places farmers. liberate murder. His victim is Otis Children's Carriages and Refrigerators Mary Howard at the East is con­ Evans, son of John Evans, who is fined to her home with a very severe Are suggestive at this time and you will find them favorably priced. 3m36 EDWARD H. BLISS, Ayer, Mass. about twenty-four years old and Hv illness and is under the care of a with his parents at North Irwin. nurse. The story of the affair, as given Do you intend having Edna Willis of Boston has arrived this paper, is as follows: Otis Evans at her house at the North to spend the is one of North Irwin's well-known summer. young men and is employed by the W. WRIGHT & SON '-, Beatrice Pray spent last week with Pennsylvania Gas Coal Company as priends in Swampscott. a member of the engineering corps Mead's Block, Ayer, Mass. Salmon and Peas '.--The Burnham family of Revere ar­ This department has not been very rived at their house at the East last busy of late and consequently Evans For the Fourth week to spend the summer months. was serving in the employ of the com­ pany as a watchman or deputy. He SPECIAL SALE Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carson and two was accompanying a wagon load of Leave your orders early. children of West Groton moved into men to Clarldge from Pennsylvania, OF their recently built, house at the North where they were going to play a re­ last week. turn game of baseball with thj Clar- MT. Goddard of Waverley spent idge team. ,The party arrived safely, Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William played the game, had a good time on TRIMMED HATS Jdado^w &_Earsons- Wilkins, making the trip on a motor- the—Fourth—and were returning-home^ cycle. close to 6.30 p. m. When the wagon Tel. 130 AYER, MASS. Mr. and Mrs. Park of Lowell and passed the Union hotel at Pennsyl­ Miss Ella Hillpott of Frenchtown, X. vania, Tony Yuditsky is alleged to Your choice is not limited to a few styles. Have a few Small Pigs left for sale J., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. have drawn a revolver and deliberate­ Farnsworth on Sunday. ly shot into the crowd on the wagon. There is splendid variety, including correct The regular nieeting of the Matrons' Evans was sitting on the end andmodel s in both Large hats and Turban effects. Aid was held with Mrs. Norman R. received the bullet from this discharg­ MID-SUMMER SALE Graves on Tuesday afternoon. There ed gun. It entered the left side, un­ was but a small attendance on ac­der the heart and forced its way be­ of Odd Lots in count of the hot weather. low the collar bone. The man drop­ Mr. Bartlett is entertaining his ped and his comrades on the wagon GEO. L. DAVIS, Main St., Ayer niece from Everett this week. hustled him to the Westmoreland hos­ Etta Holden spent the last part of pital at Greensburg, where he now Crockery and China last week visiting friends in Leomin­ lies in a precarious, although conscl ster. ous condition. The bullet has not been At Prices that will pay you to look at tlie goods probed for, the attending physicians Rev. Lyman B. Weeks delivered a not caring to do so on account of the $15.00 Dinner Set, 112 piece Johnson Bros. fine sermon at the First Parish patient's condition. He has made a Daudelin &• Cotton church on Sunday morning, July 9. public statement to superintendent A. English Ware, Wild Rose decoration, at $9.97 The next meeting of Shirley "range P. Cameron, stating that Tony Yudit Inc., Dealers in will be held on Tuesday evening, July sky is the man who shot him. Evans And many other articles at equally l»w prices 18. The lecturer's hour will be "Mis­ states that he thought the fellow was cellaneous evening." A feature of at first fooling, it being the Fourth, Soaps, Grease, Tallow, the program will be a roll-call, "What and suspected it might be a blank constitutes a good neighbor?" New cartridge he was shooting off. But officers will have to be elected to fill alas, the bullet came forth and soon Bones and Wood Ashes the places left vacant by Elsie Holden, blood was streaming from the wound. AYER VARIETY STORE Ruth Graves and Robert Evans. The affair has caused a great deal Ayer, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Ardie A. Adams, Mr. of indignation and additional bitter and Mrs. Luther Holden and Mrsfeeline. . It was stated by some that Agents for "USE ME" Hand Soap San Francisco 1915 Alice E. Cummings attended the state the men on the wagon started the grange field day held at the Pepperell trouble, but Mr. Cameron says he has Announcement made of free trip to the Spring Water grove on Wednesday, many witnesses, on different sides July 12. Mrs. Cummings, together who will say and prove that the men Panama-Pacific International Exposition with the other Graces of the Middle­ on the wagon said not a word and at- sex Worcester Pomona grange,, had tended_to._theIr„.o_wj*L_bu8ines8 It •_ Word has been received from ""Sunset,"" the Magazine of the charge of the tables at the grove. Evans dies, his assailant will be Ladies, Attention Pacific and the Par West, of the organization of the Sunset Panama- James Mackaye. an instructor at charged with murder. Otherwise be Pacific Club. The Club offers a four weeks' trip to the Exposition Harvard college, is spending a few will have almost as serious a charge to be held in San Francisco in 1915, including railway fare, Pullman, days with his mother. .Mrs. Steele to face. Mackaye. As soon as Mr. Cameron heard of E have Just Received Another Crate of .diner, hotel accommodations, admissions to the fair, side trips to w that Mr. and Mrs. Little of Revere spent the trouble he left his home where , DLUBLUCE CHINA GIVE us points of interest, all in return for a little time each week to be de­ Sunday at the Burnhams. Miss Little, he was enjoying the Fourth with his popular onilNA. A CALL- voted to the work of the Magazine. their daughter, is to spend the sum­ family and was out all night on the The exposition is to be, held to commemorate the completion of mer with Dora Burnham. case. He regrets tho affair very much on the eve of the trouble being settled the Panama Canal, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic. Prom all William A. Deland ot Wincin-udon by the association, and can assign We are getting in a LARGE COLLECTION of indications it will be by far the greatest World's Pair ever held. will sell all the personal property and standing grass on the William R.'Neat no reason why the thing should have The Magazine has issued a very attractive booklet descriptive of farm at public auction on Saturday, occurred. Evans' parents are'almost the trip, and giving further particulars, which will be sent on ap­July 15. prostrated over the affair. Mr. Cam­ WALL PAPER eron says that Evans was one ot the plication. The Alliance held their regular most trusted men in the employ of The membership is very limited and it is not likely that more meeting with Mrs. Hill on the company and has hundreds of Our Stock of Groceries, Hardware;.Paints, Etc: than one or two applications will be accepted from this vicinity. last week. On account ot the extreme friends: that he was as clean a young was never larger, hot weather, the attendance was not man as ever stood In a pair of shoes." Requests for particulars should *be sent to as large as usual; Mrs. Elmer H. L. SHERWIN & CO., AYER. ts/ Allen of tho village entertained the PARSON'S POEltt A GEM, SUNSET PANAMA-PACIFIC CLUB members with a very able paper on From Rev. EP. Stubsnvoll, Allison, la,, in praise of Dr. King's New Life Pills- . 317 Battery Street, San Francisco, California "Peace." The paper proved to be one "They're such a health necessity. of the most interesting ones of the In every home theso pills should be year and the Alliance greatly appreci­ If other kinds you've tried In vain. ates Mrs. Allen's kindness in consent­ USE DR. KINO'S SPECIAL NOTICE ing to give it under such unfavorable And be well again." Only 25c. at Wil­ AlPlumbinp: weather conditions, liam Brown's, Ayer. A picked team from Shirley played Wew AdTertlsements. and V-^ the Industrial 6.chool nlno at tho In­ dustrial, school -grounds on Saturday .n?'n»J'hSrS0.nd .WS a Cftrd' Wl» Call and pay nlsrhost prices for Poultry and The New England Telephone, and Tele­ afternoon, losing by'a score of 7 to Calves. LOWKLL POULTRY ro su 1. The batteries.were for the Indus­ School Street, Lowell. MaSTT 46tt graph Company desires to remind its sub­ trial school, Perdy and Pringle for seven innings, ;and ColTtn and Mul- *s> scribers that the 20 days allowed in which to it.,. laney for two innings; for tho Shirley team, Emerson, Bohanon and Chesbro. iumypni SATISFACTION GUARANTEED pay the service bills expire Thursday, July 20. A feature of the game was Perdy's Having gone into business for my­ pitching, securing twelve strikeouts self, J solicit your patronage. Best Please remit by check or call at Cambridge in seven innings. Emerson made the material.and workmanship.' 3m33 one run for the Shirley team in the HABTET W. WDfSLOW CHAS. E. PERRIN, West St., St., Ayer. \ second Inning. ' AYER l Tel, Con. Ayer, Mass. Telephone* t Shop, 9t~i. Bet. 474.

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SHIELEY. ?Sor„,ac< ,cur<-'ln»* Miss Mar> Vnn R.B.ANDREWS Gionet pair of shoes, Archie feimard, LEOMINSTER, HASS. ' Two Paints Kens Items. gold mounted rosary, , Mrs. Laura k Boucher, barrel of biscuits, Miss Anita SHIRLEY .Rev. A. J? Covin of the Rollstone Lo/.e,u.: umbrella. Charles Gionet; em- ,::This is^he way to reckon Congregational-- church,: Fitchburg, broid.-red collar. Mrs. Anthony Lepage: preached a fine sermon last Sunday- '?"'•> '«sket. George Stebblns; tb gold Prtintomobile Agent the cost of two paints. Piece, Patrick A. Gjonet; gold mounted CASHMARKET morning, exchanging pulpits with rosary Miss Lena Sldeleau; parlor THE la che $600—8800 EACH Rev. A. A. Bronsdon, who preached lamp .7, "* H " Credit; communion Say your job takes io gallons box. Miss Mary Gleason^ dinner set/ McCarthy & Mnrkham, Prop. at. Mr. Covin's church in Fitchburg. Miss I'irjra Lozeau; -water set. Miss SEWING Jl.-tehe; table cloth. Miss-Lizzie Devoe, and you pay the painter Mr. Brooks has severed his connec­ Marv BEO- AUTOMOBILES, $500—81400 Huc'i • Kuid cuff buttons, John Dur- DEALERS IN $2 a day or $i a gallon—the tion 'with •' the farm known as thean d sliopping. bag. Mrs. Lamaso MACHINE 1 Second-hand Ford, $300 Brooks & Davis farm on Lancaster Mo..;: sofa pillow, Miss Carona Joyal; average day is a gallon. Your road. Mr. Brooks sold out his inter­ KOfil Pillow. Miss Gertrude Day; 1..Ford Touring Car |llel , Meat and $500 est to "Mr. Davis, who will now oper­ • . Miss Leontlne Bastlen;^ wine OF KNOWN cost for Devoe is #5.25 a gallon; M t «.eorne II. Hache; fruit set. v ate the farm alone. ludith Thomas; $5 gold piece, $52.50. • Mr.-. Provisions Agent (or Leominster, Ayer, Pepperell Frank H. Wheeler and family are \mos Bourgois; parlor, lamp. Wll- 11a tn ''ionet; wine set. Joseph Desco- QUALITY. .. 3Ph Tel. Con. The job that will take 10 spending the month of July at Scitu- ox; table cloth. Miss Edith Steb SHIRLEY, MASS. ate Beach, where they have rented a hitis. fancy clock. Miss Madeline Cor- NO OTHER tIKE IT. NO OTHER A8 600D. gallons Devoe will take more cottage. mi.-r; fountain, pen, Richard Cormier; Needles, Oil, Delta nnd till kinds ofScwlne Ma- water set. -Miss Vera Day; picture. chine supplies, Kepulriui; u »puclulty. "^ Sunday Dinners gallons of alrnost every other Miss Lena Gately apc-nt over .Sun­ •'"Im .T. Chaisson; table cloth. Miss day In Worcester with her sister, Miss Mary Hacho, tray, Miss Aurora Har- VEEJfAL BARBER, Agent, Townsend Our cart will be ,ta Aycr ercry Pln; table cloth, Sandy Gionet; bed Tuesday and Saturday. We will en­ paint; from 12 to 20 gallons; Abbie Gately. spread. Miss Maranda Tessler; tea set. A Specialty ••••' Mrs. Emely Gouger; ironing board. deavor to give the best quality of say 16. Pay the painter fta Mrs. Louise Fisher of Akinson, Miss Myra Credit; picture, Mrs. An­ goods at reasonable prices Please Mich., has arrived at the home of her thony Lepage; pair of shoes, Mrs. AT • Baker give us a trial and be convinced for gallon; $1.75 a gallon for paint: sister, Mrs. Huldah. Pomfret, to re­,,,'"• : lemonade set. Miss Emelv Just One liehert; bed spread. J. X. Descoteaux", youreelf. 3m34 $4.75 for all: 16 gallons $76. main for the summer.. parlor lamp. Emile Leger; field glass. The"EVERETT" At the regular meeting of tlie St. Miss Blandln Lozeau; parlor clock. Dan lairo; bed spread. Mrs. OVila Lepage; !!Cheap" -' 16 gallons $76 Jean society,- held last Sunday, three suspenders, Mrs. Agnes Reed; rocking Trial Wilton, N. H: new members were initiated. I'halr. George Sldele.au; $6 .gold piece. Devoe - - 10' " 52.25 Miss Mary A. Joyal: parlor clock. Alex­ Licensed Mrs. Jeremiah H. Flynn, private ander Gionet; double barrel shotgun, stenographer for C. F. Edgarton, has •lohn J. Chaisson; shirt waist, Miss Ag­ nes Marlon: looking glass, M. A. WILL DEMON­ FEED GRAVES, Prop. - 6m33 just commenced on a three-weeks' va­ Roucher: gold tilled watch, Archie $2375 cation which Will be spent In Spring­ Fr^hT1' i.BOli' nik'<1 wi'«h. Joseph STRATE TO " A Nice Assortment of in Ti'^?Iarch*''iJ!?r' •"*" H-: lot °' ]and YOU Guess you better hot try to field and Ashburnham. i?i.J>f» mlni*-01'' Mls* Mary Morlart'y of Buy the paint that • James Gionet of Royalston was Mtchburg: contest for the doll won by looks well longest, gives Derriocrat save money this year by buying visiting friends in Shirley last Sun­ Miss Laura Sldeleau. The Supe­ cheap paint. . day. most years of good ser­ Baseball. r—-~- rior Quality Miss Lydia and Lea Brault of Salem vice and is positively the Wagons were visitors at the home of Arthur Shirley A. A. won from the Y. M. of Napole­ most economical. It is -ia Concord Bassett last week. C. A. team last Saturday by the score on Flour. WILLIAM BROWN Miss Lucy Chaisson of Lawrence of 7 to 5. The game was featured by Buggies spent' the , week-end at the home of Crowley's home run and a catch by A2TDWHYITIS HARR'SONS* John J. Chaisson. Scott in center field. A two-bagger DRUGGIST, - by Sheedy-won the game-for Shirley RECOGNIZED^ Frank SheHhatrpIaced a new steam in the eighth inning. Following is launch on the lake at Fort Pond, the. AS THE BEST Carriages, AYER, ' - MASS. the summary: ON THE MAR­ "TCWH *ggMTRf "Chick-a-dee," and is doing a good business, many ylsitors at the grove SHIRLEV A. A. KET TO-DAY 4S COLORS AND ALL GOOD taking the trip- around. As usual, bh po. BY THE MOST Sheedy. 2b. there are many fishermen at the pond 3 EXACTING There is no question Butcher Growley. ss. 3 for the bass and some good catches Collyer, lb. 13 HOUSEWIFE. that it is right. * If there are being made. Winifield Weeks is Burrill. rf. 0 operating the -steam launch for Mr. "Woodcombe, 1 5 WE WOULD were a better paint made, Lynch, 3b. 1 1 LIKE TO HAVE Carts Snell, whb intends building a newConnors , If. i' YOU TRY ONE it would be sold at this boathouse for the launch. Mr. Seale Prouty. cf. o 0 of North Leominster has put a.new Sibley, cf; . 0 •BAG AND COM­ Store. Witmer, p. l PARE IT WITH Harnesses motor boat, in the pond, locating It at 0 the Island, WHAT YOU Totals 14 ARE USING. i .... i GOOD ASSORTMENT AND LOWELL Y. M. The water commissioners have "-Iven A. Write or ask for AT ALL PRICES. notice that, no more water can be bh Po Fahey, 3b "A Book for used through garden hose until fur­ 0 Scott, cf 0 CALL AND SEE THEM' ther notice. The recent fires and the Phinney, lb e House-Owners.' • dry spell has reduced the water in Grant, ss. l Mullin'Bros. It is free. the reservoir. McVey. 2b l Carriage Repairing in All Jordan, If 0 Its D. M. Travis, city editor of theJohnson , rf 0 Ayer, Mass.. '- Sold by -ims- Fitchburg Daily News, has rented the Manning, c 2 Branches Promptly Doyle, p i DWINELL & MOORE Tooth Prqjaratioa summer cottage of James E. Richard­ Stevens, rf n : Done son at. Fort pond until the first of '.. Ayer, Mass. Stops Tooth Decay Totals ~l ALSO, HORSESHOEING AND GEN­ August. Mr. Travis and family oc­ 24 Lowell 4 Fitchbunt Stmt Railway Co. ERAL BLACKSMITHING cupied the same the latter part of Innings 1 2 3 4 .•, 6 T 8 9 TIME TABLE. It gets into every uneven put of Aa last week. . Shirley A. A. ...0-2101102 •—7 Lowell Y. M. C. A. 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0—5 Cars leave Ayer for-North Chelms­ I tooth—penetrate* erexy crevice, inside Charles R. White is confined to his Wish to call your at­ ford and Lowell—6.05 a.' m. and hourly at 5 minutes past the hour up to and home . this week with rheumatism in Two-base hits—Connors Prouty and I •nd outside tho tooth. Sheedy. Home run—Crowley. Stolen tention to their stock of Including 10.05 p. m. An early car Frederick Whitney his feet, making it painful and diffi­ bases—-Collyer. Fahey. Johnson. Struck leaves the Ayer carbouse at 5 15 a. m. ndays C&vitiet unreachable wilh powden ata cult to walk. out--.Witmer 2. Doyle. 5.. Double play - ,, —First car leaves Ayer -ai. AYEB, MASS ' quietly cleaned with —Crowley (unassisted). Wild pitch, i.05 a. m., then same' as week days. Miss Eleanor Miner has given up witmer. Lmpire Dalley. Time, 2h Running time to North* Chelmsford. 40 lum. - CEMETERY minutes. Running time to Lowell 1 her position at the children's hospi­ hour and 10 minutes. tal, Wellesley hills, and has return­ Union Cash Center. Cars leave North Chelmsford for Ayer ed to her home again in Shirley. MEMORIALS —6.20 a. m. and 20 minutes past tho MISffTlC TOOTH PASTE hour up to and including 11 20 p. m. Market Mrs. Michael Shucrowe died at tlie Angeline*" Farnsworth and her niece, Ruth Mellish of West Groton, are Sundays—8.20 a. m., then same as [ /Puit cirriei the antieptics to the reef Massachusetts General hospital on which they would be week days. Cars connect at Ayer UD Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock, spending several days with Mr. and to 10 p. m. for Fitchburgf.and Leomin­ AYER pl:co needed — the niwrn opening Mrs. Melzer Farnsworth. from the. effects of paralysis of the' pleased to have intend­ ster. Until 9 p. m. for Worcester. cauaed by the decay. . Cars .leave Forge Village for North nerves. . Mrs. Shucrowe was taken to George Buxton at the East received ing purchasers inspect Chelmsford and Lowell—24 minutes Package* are luge, handy and eco- word on Thursday that his father is past the hour. FORES SPBJXG LAMB, 10c. ID the hospital on Tuesday morning ynn hntrn fo dpll IOJ —The-Sunday^sehool-of the Congre­ very i!l__and_is-not-expected-to—liver arid ob-tain-prices, 1 He left immediately in order to be 40 minutes past the hour. LOIJf SPRING LAMB, 12c. to out on your bruih juit what you want. gational church are planning to hold e e Id cai: with him. ~ — uSj\?\J -c -c-J ' -Chelmsford -for- The illu^ralicn thow* how it* done. their picnic this year at Coggswell's crooKsiae—5.50 a. m. and 50 minutes LEGS SPRING LAMB, 18c lb "' grove, Fitchburg. past, the hour up to and including 10 50 The flavor is particularly pleasing. J. L. Barbour of Cambridge spent p. m; -" .' Wednesday at the home of Helen PORK ROAST, 14c. ID .A Normal course in shorthand by Sundays—First car at 7.50 a ro , then Price, 25c mall Is offered to young people in this M. Winslow and returned in the even­ Ayer,; Mass. same as week days. vicinity. See advertisement. • Leave Brookside for North Chelms­ GOOD SIRLOIN ROAST, 10c. lb ing, taking his daughter Alice with him. BARGAINS—Good second-hand Ex ford,-Lowell and Ayer—6.05 a. m. and press Wagon; 1-horse Farm Wagon; 5 minutes past the hour up to and In­ BROWN'S Fonnd Dead Man. GOOD RIB ROAST BEEF, 12c. to 14c lb Helen Pray left town last week for 1-horse Tip Cart; Trap, seats two or cluding 11.05 p. m. The badly decomposed body of a four persons; Bike Top Buggy, new .: Sundays—First car at 8.05 a m , then GOOD CREAMERY BUTTER, 24c lb The Prescription Drug Maine where She is to spend the re­ tires; Nice Road Wagon newly p'alnted; same as week days. Store, man, apparently about thirty-five mainder of the summer months. Cheap Concord Wagon: Mowers, Rakes, Leave North Chelmsford for West- years of age, was found on Wednes­ Tedders and Farm Implements. See 0 7 60 8B0 4 lb BEST CAROLINA HEAD RICE, Ruth M. Graves has received word J^Ti'l '. - - - "-BO •"<- rn, 12 50. Main Street - Ayer, Mass- day morning about 7°-30 o'clock, our Double Team Harness at $50. Har­ 1.50, 2.60, 3:50,4.60,5.60 p. m 25c from the Fitchburg Normal school that ness all grades and prices. Whips, about five minutes' wi.lK from the rail­ she has succeeded in passing her ex­ Robes. Blankets and Horse Goods. 12.50, 1.60, 2.60,- 3.50, 4.50, 6 50 p m. Hubbard's Bone Base Fertilizers. F. GOOD CALIFORNIA ORANGES 20c. road tracks in the direction of Shir­ aminations, which she took several & 0 11 BB 7 ley reservoir from Cowdrey hill. The1 B. FELCH. Carriage. Harness and Im­ s If 7? %*??£* fTth ™ —* - -«°. weeks ago. plement Dealer, Ayer. Mass, Tel. S4-2 0 M0 BEN HCR BREAD FLOUR, $6.00 bbL body was found by Howard A. Terrell, 4A0. oW^m^W^tf ' " ?'*<>• FLOWERS Sundays—7.40, 'S.40,i».'40.' 10.40 a. m Another fire broke out on Wednes­ who resides at 8 Fitch Hill road, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU­ 12.40. 1.40, 2.40, 3.40a.«y,, 4.40?A*1.«0. 6.40 lip. ntm.-. \"' -*,r- For Every Occasion day noon at Woodsville and burned ; ! ln 4S? GOLDEN CROWN, $6.25 bbl. Fitchburg, his attention being drawn SETTS. Middlesex, ss. Probate Court; All schedules .—*-subjec—*-t to- *chanar--"" o 'afl^h-*- ^ ; \ to the body by the actions of a coach for about five hours before it was To thc helrs-at-law, next of kin,ou t notice. WHITE ROSE PASTRY, 75c. bag. checked. It was wholly confined to creditors, and all other persons Inter- L. HH. , CUSHINOV.WS9fUSS^\3f., * '"^Mty&Ji?" « ^il**7< '~>k DESIGNS ' A SPECIALTY dog which was with him. th<1 land belonging to Henry Dodtto and ^?^„i!L estate .of- 'MARTHA A. 8Mt>erlnteatiaw^§^ HARDY ORNAMENTAL The body was so badly decompos­ PARKER late of Townsend ln said GOOD SALT PORK, 10c. lb did a great deal of damage, destroy­ ' ?& PLANTS,' TREES, SHRUBS ' ed that Mr. Terrell did not stop to County, deceased. Intestate. •r ing several acres of a valuable young Whereas a petition has been present­ 8 CANS CORN 25c. imettigate, but hurried to the cen­ growth of pine, ed to said Court to grant a letter ot Apple Barrels' tral police station in Fitchburg where administration on the estate of said de­ 3 CANS STRING BEANS 25c. H. HUEBNER he reported the matter to Chief Thay­ Mrs. Brooks of Fitchburg is staying ceased to CHARLES W: PARKER of Order your supply early Cart be *•> er. The man was attired in dark with Mary Howard during hor ill­ Townsend in the County of Middlesex, had at BONELESS CODFISH, 8 lbs. for 25c, All Orders Given Prompt Attention without g-Ivtns a surety Qn his bond. clothing, wearing a pair of black ness. GROTON, MASS. You are hereby cited to appear at a LOVEJOT'S COOPERAGE trousers, black hose and shoes. A Probate Court to be hold at Cambrldce, The first installment of wonu-i: and ' AYEB, MASS. Remember tbe Place Greenhouse near Groton School black derby hat was lying on the In said County of Middlesex, on the children have arrived at th-.- Mary twentieth day of July A. D. 1911 at Fire Insurance "Written a* "Dnsal UNION CASH MARKET, Main Street Telephone Connection ground beside the body. . The body Anna home for their two-weeks va­ nine o'clock in thc forenoon, to show was found in a clump of bushes near cation. cause If any you have, why thc same COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHU­ a swamp, and possibly had been their should not be granted. Ayer, Mass. SETTS. Middlesex, ss. Probate Court. The next regular meeting of the And the petitioner Is hereby dlrec- for weeks. There was no coat or vest e t0 B,vc ubI To the helrs-at-law, and all other Girls' Sewing Guild will be held on lii s.. J? 'e notice thereof, by persons interested in the estate of on the body and owing to the fact publishing this citation onco ln each VHf the common on Saturday afternoon, BERTHA Z. THORPE late of Towns- that it was found lying within the week, for three suocesslvo weeks In SPECIAL NOTICE July 15. T e end In said County, deceased. borders of Shirley, Chief Thayer of "{P. Z\ Public Spirit, a newspaper Whereas, "\VILLIAM H. THORPE ad­ published In Ayer, thc last-publication ministrator—of the estate of said de­ Fitchburg got in ""touch with Chief Herman S. Hazen. attended the an­ to be one dny. at least, bofore said -WEBSTERS Trolley Cars ceased, has presented to said <'onrt his Goodwin, who In company with other nual outing of the Middlesex County. petition for license to sell nt private Shirley officials, visited the scene City and Town Clerks' association at Witness. Charles J. Mclntlre. Esquire NEW sale, ln accordance with tho offer Concord last week. First Judge of said Court, this twenty- Groton and Pepperell named ln said petition, or upon such where the man was discovered. sixth day of June In tho year one terms as may bo adjuds-ed host, the Dr. Cowles of Ayer, the medical ex­ Alice Harbour of Cambridge has thousand nine hundred and eleven. whole of a certain parcel of tho teal 3142 F. M. ESTY, Asst. Register. INTERNATIONAL estate of said deceased for the pay­ aminer, being out-of-town, his assist­ been spending a. week with Allison The 9.05 A. M., car for Lowell will Winslow. Miss Harbour is the daugh­ wait at tho Ayor Station until 9.10 ment of debts, and chaws of adminis­ ant, Herbert B. Priest of Groton, was DICTIONARY A. M., for tho steam train due from tration, arid.for'othor reasons set forth notified, and after a thorough exam­ ter of J. L. Harbour, who will be re­ In said petition. William R. Burns Groton. and Pepperell at 9.08 A. M., un­ ination, pronounced it a case of sui­ membered as having given a very In­ til further notice. You are hereby cltod to appear THE MERRIAM WEBSTER? at a Probate Court, to he held at cide. A broken package of parls teresting humorous lecture, during IJOTTCII & KKchburar Street Ry. Co., Cambridge, in Raid rountv. on thegree n was found close to the dead the Trinity chapel lecture course sev­ INSURANCE Became ** ** a NEW CRBA- J.. H. Cushing:, Supt. twentieth day of July A. 1>. 1911. at eral years ago. nlno o'clock In the forenoon, to show man and other preliminary points r*"-*"*? TIOH', ©overlng ererjr Ayer, Mnas. field.of the world's thought,* cause. If any you have, why the same in connection with the finding of •Minnie A. Hobbs has returned home should not be Kranted. the body caused the medical exam­ Ayer, - Mass. action and culture. The only from a visit with her sister In Bos­ new Unabridged dictionary bx LYMAN KENNETH OLABK~ And said petitioner Is ordered to servo iner to come to this decision. The this citation by delivering n copy there­ ton. . many yean. . Oounsellor-at-Law of to each person Interested in thema n was evidently'not over thirty or D. W. FLETCHER cstato fourteen davs. at least, bo- thirty-five years of age, as his teeth Mr.- and Mrs. Ford of Cambridge, Became "" defines over 400,000 j. 417^421 fOre said Court, or hy publishing tho were all good. This was the only clue together with their twin . daughters, Successor to John I» Boynton ZTT Worela; mora than ever, 1 same once In each week for three suc­ OLD SOUTH BUILDING, BOSTON the'medical examiner could get which Emily and Cremora, and three serv­ > beforo appeared between, two f cessive weeks In Turner's Public ants, are spending the summer at the oovers. *?oo Pages. 0000 JD- Telephone 9-2, Ayer Spirit,.a newspaper published in Ayer, might solve the Inystery of age. UfSUBAJfCE AGENT AM) BBOKXB] Rev. Howard A. Brldgman house. lUMtraUons. At Residence, Washington St., the last publication to he one day, at Conant BoUdlngr, Vain Street least, bofore said Court. The body was brought to Shirley by Mies Bird Cremora Hazelton Is also Evenings • Witness, Charles J. Mclntlre. Esquire, Undertaker Wright of Ayer, and staying with them. Bagt Pepperell, Hagg. Firat'JudKO of said Court, this twenty- placed In the tomb, where it will re­ seventh day of .Tune In the year one Dr. Fuller spent the week-end with pace. A "Stroke of Genius.' main for a few days waiting Identi­ thousand nine Jiundred nnd eleven. his brother, Howard Fuller. E. D.-HOWE,D.'D'.'8. 3t42 XX. E. ROGERS, Register. fication. It Is thought the man had Became **£•? enoyeiopea* in \ Highest Grade «^ ' 1 a- stogie' volume. been dead about 'two- months. • - ROOMS' TO LET—For light house­ PLtrjfP FOLKS AND THIN FOLKS keeping. Inquire at Public Spirit Of­ Mr. Terrell, who discovered the Dental Rooms Became " i«_feoepted hr the', body, was blueberrying which led him Sanone will Mnke People Fat—"Money • p ^,::°°.yt»»- OohqoU and I flce, Ayor. ^ 4t41 Back If It Fnll«*» Says Mr. Hill. M Into the swamp where the body lay. nesaas the one supreme au--l OVRR WHIPPLE & TOWER'S STORE thority. ^-. ""*-,\ PLUMBING The man wore a pair of the Shirley The'llno of beauty Is a curve. Women A New Year 1911 may_bo thin and graceful, but not thin President suspenders and the. sum of and beautiful. There Is a vast number EAST FEPPEBBLL. Because £* who kaotra Wia* I seven cents was found in .his.pockets. of pale, thin, scrawny people who are all ~ Sttooese. I>ettiaf ~ For All This is the Season of FOREST FIRES brains, and nerves, but without tho 7. !-. j{" L> H jfc bag. Miss Mary A. Joyal: »5 gold pl^cc, ot health restorer that hc Is willing and CLINTON, MASS. Sj^?J i R«"««'> Of Athol: rocking chair. glad to allow any customer to deposit Piano Tuner, Littleton' *\. ; W. E. CHAPMAN Wilfred Savoy, off Athol: parlor clock. c w n 5-'LORlSV .'••' •*» Carriage, 81*n, House Palatine 2 i" " Mm and take homo a box J. C.JDescot*au"x;H0 irold piece Mex °t Samose with the understanding that AGENT FOR TEN* MAKES OP PI. Furniture Polishing, Paper Hanging' Bodah two rug*. Joseph Stebblns s 1 e n s :x t> T. * Interlar FTalshtnaT and Dceomtls*. If It does Viot give a marked lncrcaso In Get Our Pr bag of flour.''Miss Charlotte Rodah good flrjn flesh the monoy will bo re­ ANOS AND THE BEST PIANO POL­ ices Tel. 14-8, Pepperell, — picture of Rev. Cote, Mrs John rhals- turned without an> questions ISH HADE. Telephone cawecUenT AYL,^, :A ASS.

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ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTI CE1NTS A He also emphasized, the talue of com­ question Is whether a new east and .Consequently, energetic efforts hava YEAR. munity service.' This hew branch of west subway under Boylston street, a grange work bids fair to aid largely been made to proveUhat .while the To advance Paying Subscribers In many rural sections.' GOVERNMENT n new subway to East Boston and a new LEGISLATIVE Progresffre' Democratic' > party cast OXLY OSE DOLLAR. Fruiik Rane, state forester, spoke subway from Park street to the South enough'vote? last fall to become a of tho fittliig .position for his special station and thence south to Andrew legitimate political party, the effort We Publish the following Papers: topic. He complimented the beauty BYJXPERTS square shall be buHt, and If so on ^GRESS Is being made now to prove that there Turner's Public Spirit, Ayer, Mass. of the grove ln its aesthetic value on what terms and conditions the Boston Is no such party. Secretary of the the nation of forests. He spoke of The Groton Landmark. Elevated Railway company shall be Commonwealth Albert P. Langtry The Pepperell Clarlon-AdTertlser. the frightful waste allowed ln our woodland by carelessness and not re- Seems an Unsuccessful Method allowed to use them when completed. Gov. Foss Says State Printing rules that the Democratic Progressive The Littleton Guidon. These three Important questions l r The Westford Wardsman. seedlng. Mr. Rane was worth the ex­ party Is still In existence ahd. he pro­ The Harvard Hillside, ertion of the trip alone. were referred early In the session to poses to Issue nomination papers to The Shirley Oracle George Trull of the Massachusetts In State Affairs So Far the committee on street railways and Costs Too Much Money the adherents of that party who may The Townsend Tocsin. State Dairy Bureau made some good metropolitan affairs sitting jointly. wish to use them. The Democratic The Brookline Beacon. remarks, and Rev. A. H. Wheelock The committee finally reported a Progressive party leaders say they will was welcomed, who spoke on "Woman Items of local interest are solicited, BOSTON TRACTION MATTERS bill. It provided for the construction DISTRICTS ARE UP ask for an Injunction to prevent the and must always bo accompanied by and the home." The day was so.close of a tunnel to Dorchester, a Boylston tho name of the writer, not for publica­ that most of the sports were not en­ secretary from Issuing such papers, tion, but ast* guarantee of good faith, tered into. The beautiful silver cup street subway and a new tunnel' to notwithstanding the fact that, the and will always be considered strictly Hard to Frame Legislation Satisfactory East Boston and for leases of the Governor's Experts Charged With confidential. Kindly mall items soon and other prizes failed to bring out Democratic party has for many, years after tho day of occurrence, and do not the contestants. All said they had to All—Republican State Convention same, when completed, up to 1936 at Gross Inaccuracies — Democratic denounced government by injunction wait unnecessarily. . spent a profitable day. October 4—Mayor Fitzgerald's Visit <% percent, and for an extension of State Convention For October 5 from every stump in this fair land. The evening dance brought out a such leases of existing subways, for Boston's Fireworks exhibit This Paper la Sold by fair crowd and the atmosphere cooled to Europe With Commerce Chamber W. A. Drummey East Pepperell a further period of not more than Governor Foss Is still endeavoring For many years the city of Boston Ralph Sclplone Kaat Pepperell a little. Mr. Andrews is to be con­ Men twenty-five years at a rental of 4% gratulated on his success in such un­ to create a system of government by, mhas treated its citizens to a display' A. FV. Parker.. Bast Pepperell percent, and for ratification and ex; Kate E. Hazen Shirley precedented weather. The. time at which the legislature experts. His reports . from these of fireworks on the evening of July 4. H. P. Talnter Grotoii tension for a period of fifty years of usually adjourns has come and gone gentlemen on various 'state, depart­ This year It advertised to do the same -Conant «fc Co Littleton Common Reception. the existing lease of the property and C. W. Hildreth Townaeml but the solons at Beacon Hill are still ments are still coming ln, although as on previous occasions. The dis­ "Wrleht A Fletcher. Weatford "Meet us at eight o'clock at Hovey's franchises of the West End Street at work. The legislators, this year the time Is long past when the legis­ play was given on the Boston* side ot I.. Sherwin «£ Co ...Ayer, corner on Monday July 10." It was Railway company to the Boston Ele­ seem to be neither especially lazy lature should have completed'.Its the Charles river basin and It was so. Miss Florence Shattuck of Oak hill, vated Street Railway company, but Saturday, July 13, 1911. nor especially disputatious. They say work, and the Individual members bad and there have been so many and they were there. Slowly they at a rental of IVt percent per annum came back to where Mr. and Mrs. El­ they have worked slowly largely be­ thereof gone home. Late last week complaints from citizens regarding It instead of 7 percent per annum. PEPPERELL. mer Foss were completely taken by cause they have realized that.there he sent ln a report declaring that the that Acting Mayor Collins and the Republican Members on the Alert surprise. Mr. and Mrs. Foss com­ was no use In their getting all their state printing, was costing too much mayor's secretary have Investigated Items of News. Some of the -Republican members of menced the chain of circumstances by other work done and then sitting money. These experts claim that It the matter and concluded that the city Mr and-.Mrs. Leonard Green. Mrs. stealing a march on his friends when the legislature, thinking .• that the round waiting day after day for the smaller volumes were printed.the cost 'was not given full value. Therefore, L. E Starr and Miss Pansy Howe Elmer Foss of Park street and Miss provisions of this suggested bill did governor and his so-called "experts" of printing and, binding would be less.' It has decided that the" bill will not be spent jesterday in Lowell. Charlotte Murray of Brewster, .Me., not sufficiently guard the Interests of were united in marriage by Rev. R. to make their final reports as to the Also that the work cost more-than lt paid, at least until the return of Mayor Mrs A Moody of Lynn is visiting the public, urged that the extension XX. Drawbridge. This was the sur­ appropriations for the various boards, should. It Is doubtful It any one will Fitzgerald from Europe. . The display "Mis"! Anna French of Heald street. ot any leases of existing subways or prise reception given him by his Oak commissions.and departments. deny the first statement; however, of fireworks last year was extremely Thursday, the Ladies' Benevolent hill friends. Allhad a jolly time, Miss any new leases of subways to be con­ the various departments believe they poor, and as a matter of fact these societ} held a lawn party at the resi­ Maude Cliinn gave some musical se­ The governor has the power to structed should be limited to twenty- are condensing their reports -as much dence of E. L. Tarbell of Park street.. exhibitions have not. been wha"t they lections and Miss Bertha M. Farns­ transmit the appropriation bills to five years, and that instead of allow­ as possible and still make themi In­ should be for several years. The' ar­ Mrs Lucy Boynton of Elm street worth a reading. the house on the first day of the ses­ ing a lease of the West End Street telligible and that the expense of this has sold the old Boynton house on rangements with the company which . After a paraphrased poem to suit sion so that the ways ahd means Railway company to the Boston Ele- work' cannot very well be lessened. gave the exhibit seem'to have been Shlrle> street to Charles Boynton's the occasion by Miss Florence Shat­ committee can Immediately begin % sister cf Lynn, and 'several men are vaed Railway company at ~ k percent The experts , recommend that 'some made by Mayor Fitzgerald, as were tuck, Mr. and Mrs. Foss were pre­ scrutiny of all items, Which has re­ : at work on repairs. the two companies should be offered person familiar with printing be em­ those of last i#ar. sented witli a butter set. The evening sulted In such careful and economi­ was oppressively warm as the day an opportunity to consolidate on the ployed by' the'state to co-operate with The Frank T. .Marston family of cal administration in the past, but l Melrose are expected for a month on registered at 112", and out-of-door basis of 7 or'7 3-10 or "even l k per­ the authors of the reports, point out .There some people in Boston who August '< while Mrs. Ooorgo Stewart sports were resorted to. It was a this year the governor has seen fit to' cent. reasonable economies and supervise. are worried for fear that an nffort is wsitmg her mother who is ill in pretty sight in tlie clear moonlight hold up some fifty of the most im­ the state publications. Is about to be made to recall Mayor the Prownces. under the large elm trees as they portant appropriation bills, aggre­ The Public Franchise league and the Fitzgerald. The matter which leads flitted about with laughter. It was Special care should he taken by gating over. $5,000,000, until the very chamber of commerce, assisted by Mr. It is one of the functions of the of­ to this belief was a communication those who will wear only nature's late in the season but the favorite end of the session, thus putting the fice of the secretary of state to pre­ ilower was tulips. Refreshments of Ixiuis D. Brahdels, took up the ques- sent out by Acting Mayor Collins say. birlhdav buit while bathing in Heald's ways and means committee in the .tipn, and Governor Foss interested pare and have printed the acts and ing that the practice of paying over­ pond, that they do not intrude them­ ice cream, sherbert and various kinds of cake were served. awkward situation of either delaying himself in the matter with Senators resolves of the legislature and also time • must be minimized. It was selves upon the more modest feelings prorogation or passing upon the vari­ the Blue Book, which contains, of the shore owners who think they Bennett and Tinkham and Representa­ pointed out that this communication have a right for mixed parties to en­ Deaths. ous expenditures without proper In­ tives Ells, Crocker, Cushing and oth­ ln addition to the acts and re­ came shortly after Mayor Fitzgerald's joy the vicinity. Heald's pond is closed Alfred Henry Simpson died at St. vestigation. ers. Two new bills were finally, solves, the message? of- the gov­ departure for Europe and after a con­ to all fishing. Joseph's hospital, Xashua, X. H.. on ernor. As Governor Foss has already These Are Expensive Experts drafted and Introduced by Senator ference between Acting Mayor Collins Tuesda\, the Woman's club held an Wednesday, morning. July 12. Tlie Tinkham, changing the original plan sent In at least seventy special mes­ and Ch'airriian John A. Sullivan of the remains .were brought to Miss Iola The governor has had ten or twelve sages he might have cut the cost of outing at the Edward Richardson .Morse's where lie had boarded and "experts" at work day after day for by providing for consolidation of the flnane'e commission. The friends of farm West End and the Boston Elevated on printing by a considerable sum If he the mayor are reported to be much was eared for until July 4. Mr. Simp­ over three months now at salaries of had curtailed his work In that direc­ Those who attended Edmund Blood's son was born in Meride'n. Conn., sixty- from $25 to $50 a day, but members a 7 percent basis and for an indeter­ concerned regarding this action. Why' grove on luly 12, certainly appreciated tion. two years ago July 24, coming to this say that about the only Important minate lease of subways after a period they should be, however, plain citi­ his kindness and city persons always town over twenty years ago, and was recommendation which he has made of twenty-five years after their con­ Congressional Redisricting Is On zens fall to understand, especially If visit these woods before leaving town. identified with the.Burkinshaw knife struction. It looked at first as If the An order is before- the legislature the overtime dodge for passing money The grange members were pleased factory, and he remained with them as as a result of their investigation has long as lie was able.' been that no money should be appro­ railways, had come to the conclusion for the appointment by the presiding to political friends is being over­ to see Miss Mollie Wilson of Mt. Leb­ officers of the two branches of a joint anon street among- them again. priated for a dairy building in the that It would be be wise for them to worked as Is generally, alleged. Funeral services were held at eight accept these alterations, but the special committee of eight senators At any rate, the mayor's friends The ha% is drying up in the fields o'clock on Thursday evening, Rev. R. Amherst Agricultural college, and uncut, and many gardens are an en­ W. Drawbridge officiating. A large farmers are so Incensed at this nig­ stockholders' committee of the West and fourteen .members of the house to are expecting trouble and say tire failure. spray of flowers were sent by the gardly policy in relation to one of the End Street Railway company are sit through the summer recess and re- they are ready at any moment to cable A Buick truck has just been de­ knife factory and a handsome basket great industries of the state that it claiming that the West End stock­ district the state Into congressional him that he must return at once and livered to Attridge Bros., tlie grocers, of flowers from the Melindy family holders would not vote for consoli­ districts. look out for his political fences. The were among the floral gifts. Messrs. begins to look as if the governor would by E O Proctor of Ayer, which they not risk vetoing the appropriation dation on those terms, and it Is Next year. Is congressional year and significance of the move is said to lie will use in their business. Harmon and Mahoney had charge of doubtful if the time has yet come to in the fact that It is the first time an the body which was sent on the Fri­ when it is passed by the senate and before the present members of con­ Mr and Mrs. J. Burt Bennett of day, July 14, early train for burial at house. force them to consolidate by a threat gress can make plans for renomlna- acting mayor has ever attempted to Waltham were guests of Mr. and .\lr«. tlie Walton cemetery in the township pf revoking their street franchises, so tlon they will have to know the change a mayor's policy during his John O. Bennett and Mrs. Harriett K. of .Montgomery, N. Y. The bills for these "experts" must tile matter is still in doubt and it will bounds of their district. If a special absence, and that for this reason lt Gutterson the .past week. be, paid sometime and members say take some days if not weeks before committee should sit during the sum­ may bode trouble to the'mayor. Chester O. Gutterson of Waltham is Mrs. Mary A. Dow passed away at when they are paid It will be found a satisfactory conclusion can be mer it could report early in the next visiting his mother, Mrs. Harriett the home of her son-in-law, William that Governor Foss has involved the reached. year, and the bill reported could be Ex-Congressman Sullivan, as head Gutterson • Miller, of Park street on Tuesday, July. state in an unnecessary expense of of the finance committee, has made acted upon very early In the-sesslon. - Prudence Wright chapter, D. A. R., 11. aged eighty years. She was born some $20,000 or $30,000 and has noth­ State ConyentlojLQctober 4 many " efforts to have the municipal met with the Pepperell Woman's in Nottingham. Eng.. but came to Pep- ing to show for it but a much belated The Democrats . have selected administration of Boston conducted In The Republican state convention Thursday, Oct. 5, as the date of their club for a basket picnic at the grove | perell .when she was twelve years of crop of recommendations, most ot will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 4, an honest, economical and broad- of Edwin R. Richardson on Friday age. She went to the house she lived state convention, which is to be held which, judging from those already in, the first to be held under the state­ minded manner. The mayor has July 11 The pleasant occasion was in until four years ago and lived there will he either unwise or impractica­ In Boston. , The date was set by the marred only by the extreme heat about fifty-five years. wide primaries act. The basis of never taken kindly to the appoint­ ble. •state committee last week, when ment of Mr. Sullivan to this post nor •which prevented many from attend­ Mrs. Dow leaves a son. Albert Dow, representation for this convention has some of the members endeavored to ing. to his efforts in behalf of civic de­ a daughter, .Mrs. Charles E. Fales, All the members of the legislature been fixed as one delegate for the first have the committee name a state Pepperell Flower mission, organized both of Adams, and a daughter, .Mrs. were anxious at first to assist the seventy-five votes cast for governor cency; consequently he has taken oc­ Clara A. Roberts of Lowell, and five ticket to be supported at the pri­ casion many times to try to prejudice so main > ears ago, is still prominent governor In all possible ways in his last fall In each ward of a.city and in maries. This endeavor was unsuc­ in the thoughtful deeds of our town. grandchildren, Ellen, William and the public against Mr, Sullivan. efforts of economy, but even the Re­ each town. For each succeeding 100 cessful and unless such action Is and the few remaining members of Ruth Miller of this town, and Arthur publicans, who stood by him long af­ votes cast for governor In 1910 an­ and Chester Roberts of Lowell. taken by tlie committee at some fu­ the original board have never for a ter he was deserted by the Boston other delegate will be allowed each day forgotten, some one at least, who The funeral services were held on ture date, the Democrats of the state Items of Interest. needs assistance in some forms. Glad­ Thursday at lier late home. Rev. R. Democrats.are now beginning to weary ward of a city, and each town shall will be free to nominate their own of seeing him pose as an economical be entitled to at least one delegate. A remarkable species of tree has ly are the words and deeds of cheer XX'. Drawbridge officiating. The sing­ ticket ln their own way. been discovered about the region of sent and where the substantials are ing was by Miss Ethel Wells. The administrator while he is wasting The Somerville Republican city Experts Seem Not to Be Expert Lake Chad in Africa. In a few years needed they are sure to go. By their body was placed in the family lot in thousands bf dollars on "experts" and committee opened the campaign last a tract of land planted with young the Walton cemetery. The committee on ways and means faithful and loving service let us all delaying prorogation week after week. week at the Point of Pines with more trees of this species becomes an im­ remember the many who need a word showed up the character of the re­ News Items. The final straw for many members than 500 enthusiastic Republicans' penetrable forest, it is said. The tree of cheer and especially tlie aged and was when the governor seat in a mes­ ports of the governor's experts at a grows from thirteen to sixteen feet in the shutins A party of young people, among present. It was an auspicious open­ hearing last week in a spectacular sage one day savins that the legisla­ ing of the Republican canvass of 1911. a season. Its foliage resembles the Mrs Dora Atkinson was taken sick which was Miss Anna Mae Shaw was manner. The experts were J. P. mimosa and its .branches are thorny, a guest, left Worcester on Saturday ture was wasting time in considering Mayor John F. Fitzgerald has left on Tuesdav evening as a result of the question of the proper salary for Byers of New Jersey and Frederick but as yet the tree has not been classi­ the severe heat, necessitating the serv­ for a two-weeks' vacation at "Allcom- Boston to make a tour of Europe with fort" cottage at Beachmont. They a certain state official and sent in an­ H. Mills of New York. The report ln fied. The wood can be cut, into planks ices of a physician. the Boston chamber of commerce question was one criticising the state and the natives make canoes of it. were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. other message the next day saying committee, which he proposes to meet The annual picnic of the First Par­ George H. Shaw as chaperones. board of charities for Its conduct of Daniel L. Bowman has attended the ish Sunda> school will be held at that he criticized the "policy" of the on the other side of the water. His Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Johnson the charitable institutions of the United Evangelical Sunday school at Edwin Richardson's pine grove on fish and game commissioners in set­ departure on the steamship Fran- Litltz, Pa., for thirty-four years with­ Friday Julv 21. from New York are guests of Mrs. ting out certain seedlings, a "policy" state. Hon. Leontlne Lincoln of Fall M. H. Johnson on Oak hill. conia last week was made the occa­ out having missed a session. Jacob which it was discovered on examina­ River, chairman of the state board of B. Young bas a record of twenty The First Parish church will be Mrs. Minnie C. Bray of Tacoma, sion of an improvised ovation with all charity, stated that the report of the closed on the last Sunday in July and tion was an experiment, which had the stage settings peculiar to the years'of perfect attendance at the the first Sunday in August. Wash., is a guest of Mrs. J. A. Saun­ cost the commissioners $16.50. experts was full of Inaccuracies and same school. ders. mayor. Hc had hardly got out of the Miss \irginia Stockwell of Boston that In one Instance they had made Kimball Stevens of Newton Center, Time and again in/ the last two sight of land, however, when Har­ a mistake of $70,000 In their figures. New Advertisements has been wsiting Rev. and Mrs. D. R. vard college bestowed upon his mor­ Child formerly of this town, died at his home months the ways and means commit­ The message of the governor on the ou July 11. tee, after careful investigation, has tal enemy, ex-Congressman John A. report of these experts cut down ap­ Thursdi\ morning. July IX, there Sullivan, chairman of the Boston •were four dead in our little town— Mrs. Lucy P. Saunders is in Waver­ concluded that the report of the ex­ propriations of the state board from Dr. Davis little baby, Mr. Simpson, ley for a few weeks. pert who examined a department was finance committee, which keeps a ;S87,000 to $844,119. DAY OLD CHICKS A Normal eour.se In shorthand by sharp eye upon Fitzgerald, one of Mrs Dow, and a young man who mall Is offered to younR people in this Inaccurate, or that the governor mis­ from my superior laying strain of Its degrees of master of arts. The charge was made that the re- ' Barred and Whlto Rocks, $12.60 per •worked for the Keyes and went to vicinity, See advertisement. • understood and misinterpreted the 100. Eggs, $5.00 per 100. O. B. OLSEN, the hospital at Groton and was oper­ expert's report in making his recom­ port of these experts was grossly in­ Townsend Harbor, Mass. Telephone ated on for appendicitis. THR TAPKSTRY WKAVK11S. mendations to the legislature, and accurate In the case of the adult Pepperell 59-12. 3mz7 TaCttera remaining uncalled for at the Lot us take to our hearts a lesson— Items of Interest. poor, where they, gave an expendi­ East Pepperell postofflce for the week No lesson can braver be— time after time the house has accent- ending July 10: C. Bloncliaril. Charles I-'rom the ways of the tapestry weavers ed the views of the committee w. .,- Twelve years ago Louis Reutter ture of.$330,000, when the actual "B.-'ERters. John Gilbert (3). Con Kel- On the other side of the sen. amount was $259,265. Dr. F. J. LIVE POULTRY WANTED 3 eh or,. W.. H. Lang. out a single voice being raised in favor caught a pickerel through the ice near Above their heads the pattern lianRs: his home at Winsted, Conn. He placed Lewis corroborated the statement of I buy all kinds of live poultry and They study It with care, of the governor's suggestion. pigeons. Drop me a postal or telephone Orange Field Dny. The while their fingers deftly work, a ring made of a horseshoe nail around Mr. Lincoln. It was also brought and team will call. their eyes are. fastened there. Boston Traction Matters Interest the fish's tall and.put the pickerel back Wednesday, July 12, was a hot day out that the governor himself signed O. D. OLSEN for the representatives from sixteen They tell this curious thing, besides. Luckily while the legislature Is still into the water. Reutter, while fishing the warrants for the expenditure or In the same waters last week,'caught Townsend Harbor, Mass. gfangfes to brave the fatigue of a long of the patient, plodding weaver: •n-alting for the governor to act on the money for state charities, notwith- Telephone; Pepperell 69-12. 6m39 trip. Master A. A. Adams and wife He works on the wrong side ever­ Appropriation bills which he Is still the same pickerel. The flsli still wore more, but the ring, It is said, but It was hardly ttanding his statement in the message of Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Roek- Works for the right side ever. holding up there are several Important that there is no safeguard against the It is only when the weaving stops, and discernible, the pickerel having grown •wood of Lunenburg, N. S. Boardmaa, matters which it can consider, and txpendlture of money .for these pur­ past masters H. L. Hill and A. An­ the web Is loosened and turned. to thrice the size it was when first fci-* - That hc sees his real handiwork.—that sne of the most Important Is that re­ caught. , , - poses. drews of Fitchburg, Walter Shattuck, his marvelous skill Is learned. lating to street railway transporta­ master of Prescott, D. S. Crockett, \ The Sandwich Island alphabet has Standing of Democratla Progressives Mason, N. H., and others seated them­ Ah! the sight of Its delicate beauty, tion facilities In and arbund Boston. twelve letters; the Burmese, 19; the !"». how It pays him for his cost! There aro three Important questions The Democrats who form the Dem- AUTOMOBILES selves In the cool natural amphithea­ 'No rarer, daintier work, than his was Italian 20; the Bengalese* 21; the He­ cratlc Progressives are anxious to Involved: The first Is whether the brew, Syrlac, Chaldee and Samaritan, tre at the Pepperell Springs near the ever done by the frost. have that party ruled out of exist­ spring house. Then the master brlngcth him golden lease of the property and franchises 22 each; the French, 23; the Greek, Having taken the agency for Jack­ hire, nnd glvetli blm praises as well: 24; the-Latin,-25; the German, Dutch ence. The Democratic Progressive son Cars for Pepperell, Groton, Towns- Mr. Prescott of Nashua, N. H., told And how happy the heart of tho weaver shall be ratified and extended at a end and D,nnstable, Mass., and Hollis, to a cluster of patrons only, some of Is. no tongue but his own can tell. rental of 7or 7% percent, or whether and English, 26 each; the Spanish and party was formed last fall to help the Slavonic, 27 each; the Arabic, 28; the Domotfratlc candidate for governor, Brookline, Milford, Greenville, Wilton the work ho "saw given by tho'Banner The years or man are the looms of the two companies should be consoli­ and Temple, N. H., wo are ln a post-- grange of New Hampshire. Persian and Coptic, 32; the Georgian, Eugene N. Foss. As a matter of fact,- God, let down from the place- of sun, dated on the basis of preferred 7 35; the Armenian, 38; the Russian, 41; tion to Submit to prospective auto Before coming onto the grounds, Wherein we nre weaving alwavs, till 7*V4 or ,8 percent stock of the Boston It did not cut a very wide swath In the buyers, a, car of sterling qualities in the extensive dairy and farm buildings the mystic web Is done,— the Muscovite, 43; the Sancril and s m el9 Weaving blindly, but weaving surely. Elevated Railway company being Is­ Japanese, 50; the Etheoplc and Tar­ campaign. . However, It might have *»Ji°^ 23 ranging ln price'from of Charles Dennen on Park street each for himself his fate. le/ved aB a life raft for the Demo­ W50.00 to $2,200.00. ' were inspected. The speakers of thc We rriay not see how the right side sued In exchange for the common tarian, 202 each. looks: cratic. party if the breach between' We would like to take up a sub- day came onto- the .grounds about stock of the West "End Street Railway Cows are tenderly cared-for In Hol­ noon. After a picnic dinner, state Wc can only weave and wait. company, j ' ; Foss, Hamlin and Vahey had not heen agency proposition with parties in -the land. They aro blanketed in damp or icfKcIently patched up for Mr Fos» various towns mentioned; Write or master Charles M. Gardner was Intro­ Nor evermore need the. weaver be cold weather in the pastures. call for demonstration and for further duced and spoke on the part that agrl- troubled with doubt dr fear,— The second question Is "vijhether lo run as th? reg sl.tr Domocratl-! csn*-. Let him look to the great Ideal, the Harold Rockwell, thirteen years Information. 3m34 culture played In the national econ­ pattern will appear: the existing leases of the Tremond ("iriate. ' " •-.•;'• omics' and urged,

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