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"-/;j, SPIRIT. ^•' dhef Dollar arid Fifty Cents^ a Year To Advance Payiigg Subscribers Only One Dollar Fortieth Y6ar Ayer. Mass. Saturday May 23,1908 AUTOMOBia •AOiNT^ FOE THE' REO MOTC>ll CARS rin^S WE ARE NOW PREPABED TOSHOW TOU A FINE LINE OF SPRING SUITS, IN THE "THE CAE THAT SHOWS WHY." IF INTERESTED SEND FOE nj:,U8TBATEp CATALOGUE New Browns, Grayg_and Tans, all. Finely Tailored, and Prices from $10.00 to $22.00 STOEING, BEPAIEpiG _ SUIPPLIES J • REMEMBER WE CAREY EUJBT, SCHAFFNEE Bicycles and Bicycle Suridries We also have a complete line of Men's Hats, Caps and Shoes FLANAGAN'S CROSSING Phones: 86-» Day 1 86-2 Night ROBERT MURPHY & SONS, Proprietors D. W. FLETCMER & S^N, AYER, Mass. OPPOSITE DEPOT . •''•ji'* WEJSTFPRD. ABOUT , Towif^—Mrs. Beulah JBrown, DEAtH8.M3ilbert V. Quinn, a former r widow of the late Wfll^ A.. Brown; died well-known resident, of this village, died CEsrTEE.-e-Mr«,. Thomas E. Drew, an at the,.home of her son, Willard in New at the city hospital in Boston on Thur*- old and highlyHvqpectecl resident oif this York hlgh.mass.vras tion have-been',heud from the'village peo ner, on .Nabiuusett and Brookside roads. ple who enjoyed the play^ celebrated in St" Catlferine^s churchntt John A. Tavlor is filling a vacancy in 7.80 o'clock by Rev^^J.vJ, McNamara. Ait'tije. Cdnneeational chnrch Sunday the high school in Keene, N. H. The choir, under Ttbf^dlr^tion of Misa mommg Bev. C. P.: Marshall bronght in- Mrs. Sarah (Morrison) Dailey has sold MaxyyS. Hanley,MiigrtheGregorianchant teresUng echoes from the annnal meeting and at the offertory Misa^HaiJey sang the Exceptional Values in High Grade of the'American home missionary society, her farm on the Tyngsboro road to a Por tuguese from Lowul. "Pie Jesu." Ask the-iattket was being convened at Pittsfield the preceding week. borne from the church'the choir sweetiy Suits '- In the evening Wm. A. Perkins conduct BASEBALL.—The ballgame Ust Satur sang, "Nearer, my God, tothee." There ed the services on the topic, ^'Being a day between the Wwtford AJL. and the were man^ beautifiil flora jtiibutes, which chrisUan at home and at school" Mrs. Loyal Le^n, No. 8, Boyal Arcanum, of testified in a marked degree U^ the high P^kins read a thonghtfnlly prebMed par Lowell, was deprived of mnch of its active esteem in wUch the deceased was heu. We are now prepared to offer a very large and per on the snbject, and Mus S. W. Loker enthusiasm'from the fact that'the Lowell The church was filled withsorroinng rela spoke ont of a wide experience'in dealing team proved so-poor a match for the West tives and fricndsr, niahy 6^ present from compflete line of New Spring Suits made by some with young people, r As experienced teach- ford team. The Lowells'w^mostiymid Boston, Lowell, Lawretic^enibndgeand of the best and most reliable makers of good ' . ers, all these made the subject most inter dle-aged men and belonged to th9 heavy the immediate vicinity. X^e bearers wer« esting juidihelpfnl.. '•,'.'..._ weight class, being slow of tiovement W John L. Flynn of Forge Y^age, Wm. H. clothing in the country. Wxnk is'pi«gieeitdi!g^ wdLon tbe.grs^ grasp ian advantage.. The We^ord team ~ of'.-the -grounds.'around, the heir. scH'ool Wall-bf,-Lynfl, ThomaaiE, ^ah and T. «i« actirltfy youig, wiselrtrainedltn'tKeiB P. Qinnn-of Lowell, Johi^ Mitchell "nnd D. v;Oiar^mv is toioffer our customers the best ;:i house, recently completed^ Five hundreid movements and can jump like a_deer, and '>y dollars will be used to drain the land near F. Fitzgerald of BostolK" Burial waa in valUBSf pb^lfeferat apricewe bpliev^e-the averagte like the deer they can usually land where St Patrick's cemetery, Lowell. the new academy and put it in proper they plan to. With such odds the Low man wants to. pay for a Suit ' .^\ shape for a playground. . The town will ell team irere badly beaten, tiie score stand Word has been received here of thesud- appropriate a small sum each year until ing 7 to 8.^ This afternoon at Stony Brook den death of Mrs, George Blake of Keene, We are showing all the new colors for th|s__ tms is accomplished. The new building park, near Westford station, the Westford N. H., on Thursday of last week. Mrs. season. The leading colors are BMwn, OlTve, will be in entire readiness for the opening team is to face its match, or nearly so, the Blake, will be remembered as Miss Jennie term bf school in September. Littleton team. It was this team that two Pierce. She died without a moment's Gray, Blue and Black. 'Weeks ago played sixteen innings with the warning, while walking up stairs. She Our Suits are Mrs. Clarence A. Reid is ill at her home Weitford team and were defeated by a leaves to mourn her loss a husband and made from the very latest Models, and we have 'with pneumonia. Mrs. Beid has tbe sym score of 1 to 0. Now it is Up to the skill four children—two girls, Helen and Mari them suitable for pathy of her many friends in her illness. of the visiting team to reverse the score so on, and two little boys, the youngest a men of all ages. Owing to a.siege with measles -with her it will stand' 0 to 1. Can they do it? baby one year old. Mrs. Blake was the ' .W ^e. .,hav. e Smart Clothes for Young Men,--Suits that have dash children before she was stricken, she has Well, not "without some spry movements danghter of Mr. and Mrs. HeriryD. Pierce, been particularly taxed and was less able and the -calculations of experience. who formerly had charge of the.Westford and distinction about them. The Spring Suits are handsome, but" to meet serious sickness. At tbis 'writing town farm. she is holding her own and is doing as not radical in cut or style of fabric. Prices. TovvN MEETING.—It is pretty good evi FORGE—Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Lyons and well as can be expected. dence that the town is not in a stupor of It is a year ago this week that onr indifference toward availing itself of mod son of Melrose and Mrs. E. A. Penny of $10.00, $12.00, $13.50. $15.00, $18 OOand $20.00 branch line of electric csirs began to ope em utilities, by the number of special town Lowell were at Mr, Parsons on Sunday. a " Mrsi Parsons returned with them for a rate regularly; a year, with its changmg meetings, and^ aU the inhabitants of the short visit. seasons to test their efficiency. On the town, qualified to vote in town affairs, are whole' they have given excellent service legajly warned by the seleotmon that a Edward Hanley spent Sunday at Marl and there is a general verdict of satisfac special town meetine, for which the war- boro. While there ne took a trip to Chel tion with them. Even those most conserv rants are posted^^. will be held at the town sea to see the ruins. SPRING TOP COATS atively minded, who look' for something house Monday, May 25, at ten o'clock Mr. and Mrs. James Sullivan were the to deplore in any radical change, do not m., to act on seven articles, -which after iests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Daley of Every man should have one as that gives tbhe and style to his - fail to commend them. Long may they being condensed and much of the " where Eeominster over Sunday. continne their hourly trips to onr hilltop as "and "act in relation to the same " Mrs. John Carmichael visited Mr. and appearance, in style and fabric -we have a variety of choice. village. eliminated, read plainly thus: Mrs, Alvah Bicknell of Somerville tbe past The'epidemic of measles seems to have ' Art. 1. ' To choose a moderator. week. sdmewhat abated, althongh there are a Art. 2. To hear the report of tbe commit Prices, $lO.0O, $12.00, $15.00 arid $18.00 tee chosen to investigate the plan ol addlne Albert Jones and Otter Walker walked number of cases scattered aronnd in vari two rooms to the Foige •VTUige schoolhouse. from Worcester to this village, a distence ons families.. .School was resumed in the Art. 3. To see 11 the, town will appropriate of thirty-eight miles, in nine and one-half primwy grada^Monday morning, but the or borrow a sum ol money sufflclent to de- hours, to spend a tew days with Mr. and restrictions, on library books to families Aay the expense ol enlai^g g»ld school- house. Mrs. Wm. Burnett lliey returned to wh'e^B there are children in the primary Worcester on Wednesday. RAINCOATS grades.have not been removed. Art. i. To see 11 the town will vote to ac cept section 24, chapter 32, ol the revised Joseph LeClair has accepted a position Misa Beatrice Sutherland has had a par laws, providing that uo flreshal l be set In the The ever-useful member of every Man's Wardrobe. It matters open air Irom April 1 to Oct, 1, unless by the at Barre, leaving the village Wednesday. ticularly severe attack of measles. written permission ol the lorest flre ward. ^ Mrs. Lawrence has had another very se not whether it blows hot or blows cold, rains or shines, the Rain Coat ^ Art. 6. To see If the' townwil l vote that rious attack of illness, and her advanced MEMORIAL.—In Another week Decora no wood. lumber, stonen, brush, etc., be left age makes it still more alarming. If she is equal to any emergency and lobksryell at alf times. : ;: tion day will be here, the <* memory day " on the highway. lives until August next she will reach her Art. 6. To see 11 the town will discontinue of the year, when tbe memory of the sol Boutweli Brook road, lroni.GnmileTllle road ninety-fifth milestone. dier dead will be revered, and people all to Pine Rlds^e road. Preparations are under way for Memo Prices, $10:00, $12.00, $15.00 and:$I8.0a, unite in decorating the last resting-place . Art. 7. To see 11 the town will vote todis rial day in our schools and the program of their .own loved ones. As nsual it will continue the road opposite the house ol Wm. will be unusually attractive. be fittingly-observed here. One hundred K Decatur, across the Nashua and Acton and fifty dollars were appropriated at town railroad to the Concord road. There was a large woodland fire Sun meeting to carry out the 'day's program. - • t day, when aboat twenty-five acres on Clay- Suits Made to. Measure "; On the afteraoon'preceding, the members GBAinTEViLL«.-TThe section gang on pit hin near this village were barned. the LoweU.and Fitehburg line have been /. ot the; Veterans' association will decorate busy in this -vicinity for Ute Mr. and Mrt. Louis Caisse and son Ray For those who desire something very different from the prevail-^ the griires of comrades in the north and nasa t few days mond of Leominster, and Allan Carkin of west cemeteries, and on Memorial day levellin_g n.p the nils and inJ othef wawayy s Gardner, were at Mr. and Mrs, A,'W. ing styles, we are prepared to make Suits or Extra Trousers to mbraing'. at' nine o'clock they will leave putting the roadberoai" d in good sh^>e for the Carkin's Sunday. summer traffic special measure. We have a Fine Lineof Samples from which to the town hall foji-Falrview. Owinr to tiiei NEW AD'VERTISEMENTS. recent disbanding of Troop r cavsilty, the P. Hfeniy Harrington,^ Ui6 well-known make your selection. A fit is-guaranteed. veterans will-iniss the gaUant'escort they contractor, is attending the convention of ^OMMOirWKALTH 0» MASSACHUSETTS.— have given for many yeank In their.place ^tiie Forester* of Amenca, in Springfield, CJ Middlesex ss. ProbateCourt Tothe the,Sons -of,: Veteran^ Will perform this as a delegate from coqrt Graniteville. helr8-at>1aw, next ol kin, creditors, and all •• pcrsoon; s Interested I_n th_ e estete ol Prices, $20;00 and Upwards duty. Upon returning to the hall a fine Mr. and Mrs. Charies Mnlholland and Nancy J. Bichardson, late ol Aohby, In said program wilt be given. The Nashua mili son Francis, Mrs. John Mtilholland and County, deceased, intcstete. tary band, which gave such excellent satr the Misses. Margaret, Catherine and An •Whereas, a petition has been presented to isfaction last year, will escort the veterans na Curran of Lowell were recent'^tors said Conrt to grant a letter ol admlnlatnitlon REftDING STANDflRD Copperplate ai thei home 6f Mr. and Mrs. John Loftus on the estate ol said deceased to E
: AUAD'TKBTISEMENTS APPEAR IN ALL Misses EUen G. Sawtelle and Martha WITTY 8AYING8 ABOUT WOMEN. THI KiKs PAPERS VSTE PCBLISH. Wright contemplate spending the summer VEOBTABIAIf WOfEVBUmtn- Philosopher Recalls National Opinions, Put This Stove In •OOD POSITION GIVEN EVERV ADVER vacation in Europe. Some of Them Rather Tart. TISEMENT. Tbe senior and j^unior c.E. held a union Nothing Bemaiiui Bnt tbe Btrenin service Sunday evening at the Congrega Your IQtchen Where Tbey Once liived. Hfe have over 10,000 readers every wtek. tional-ve>suy, conducted by Mrs. John B. The sea glittered In the sunshine, It is wonderfully The faddlBta got' to Kansas rather The date, with your name la stamped on Hardy auil Mi:^•< Annie Gilman. and looking at the multitude of wom convenient to do UM margin slisvrs to what time your sub- en In their splendid array, the philoso early. The flrst thing In that line A handsoj^e granite monument has been •ertptlon Is paid, and Eer\-es as a continuous pher said: kitchen work on a seems to have heen a vegetarian col vtwpt. . . placed in the family lot of the late Daniel "Woman—men like to ponder her. stove that's ready ony organized in the East for the TUs paper is entered at the postoffice as Kendall at South cemetery by his son, purpose of establishing a settlement ' Meond class matter. George Kendall, and his daughter, Mrs. You could fill a book with proverbs at the instatit wanted, In Kansas Territory. 0. H. DeWolf ^HHB. TCRNEB, TCBLI8HER AND PEO- Belle Sawyer. and saws about womSh. . and out of the way the "The Greeks say love is,blind, but of Philadelphia was elected presi PRIETOR. Rev. Geo. L. l'«rin, D.D , and wife of moment you're done. dent, D. McLauren treasurer, and H. Brookline, Mass., are at their summer marriage is clear-sighted enough, and SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1908. S. Clubb of New York'secretaryi The home, accompanied by Mrs. Vera Lane they add that after three days the Such a stove is the New most troublesome things in the world Perfection Wick Blue place chosen was on-a small creek BROOKLINE;. and daughter Rachel. about six miles south of Humboldt, Wednesday evening, Alay 27, will be are rain, a guest, and a wife. Flame Oil Cook-Stove. "The Persluas say, 'Always consult Allen county. About 100 persons •NEWS ITEMS,—A brush fire nearthe neighbors' night at the local grange. By using it ypu avoid tbe your wife, and then go and do as you located tbere In 1856. This colony qnarry of 0. D, Fessenden at South Brook- Parties from Nashua have purchased please.' They say, too, 'Many wives continuous overpowering refused to Indulge in the use ot meat, Une-cansed an alarm to be rung io Mon the James Harvey Hfdlhomestead andex- are a i-^od thing, for while they quar heat of a coal Stio and cook tea, coffee, tobacco or other stimu day-afternoon, but it was put out before tensive repairs are being made. lant and lived only on vegetables and rel you ^re left In peace.' with comfort, even in dog- much harm ynof done. Mr. and Mrj. Samuel Swett are to cele- fruits.. Though each colonist was "A German will tell you that a Mr..and Mrs. Frank Simpson and little brate-their thirtieth wedding anniversary, days. The * to own his own property, the colony ~ woman and a stove ought not to stir daughter, Marion Isabel, of Lowell, and Tuesday, June 1. - was vO be to a certain extent, co-op- out of the house. -Preston Knights of Brookline, Mass., are Mirza Aii of Kuli Khan, the persian operative. During the summer and "The Indian says that you test gold at Mrs. David Hobart's for a few weeks. consul at Washington, has been a guest fall 3t 1856 there was much sickness by applying acid, the strength of a Miss Eliza J. -Parker and Mrs. Walter at the Elmwood this week. He is desir NEW PERFECTION and the greater part of the colonists Parker of LoweU .are at the Putnam home ous of spending the summer here -with his earner by loading it, a. man's charac Ifeft the country. The only reminder stead, for the week. family. ter by listening to him, and a woman's of the colony which now remains is . , The lioyal Workers met with Miss Jo- thoughts—"By Allah,' they break off, Wiek Blue flame On Cook-Stove the fact that the stream on which- Items of Interest, "it cannot be done' " aephine Seaver Thursday afternoon. is so constructed that it cannot add perceptibly to the heat of they settled Is still known as Vege A very interesting game of baseball was \ , a room; the flame being directed up a retaining chimney to tarian Creek.—Kansas City Star. During the last nineteen years the rail plsiyedon the local diamond last Saturday (MET HIS MATUH AT REPARTEE. the stove top where it is needed for cooking. You can roads of America have killed 143,527 per between the Hollis and • Brookline nines, see that a stove sendmg out heat in but one di sons. • During the same period 931,450 Jersey Judge Probably Sorry That He Divine Clamor Appreciated. - resulting in a score of 7 to 6 in favor of rection would be preferable on a hot day to the Brooklines. • . persons have been injured by American Started Action. The family wero. gathered in the railroads. - a stove radiating heat in <»//directions. The library admiring a splendid thun Memorial services will be heliTat the . During the last seventeen ypars Amer New Perfection" keeps a kitchen uniformly CongregaUonal church, Sunday, May 25. Gov. Fort of New Jersey tells this derstorm when the mother bethought ican coal mines have killed 22,840 men, comfortable. Three sizes, fully warranted. jcr seU of Dorothy alone-In the nur JKev. .and Mrs. George A Bennett at story: An old Quaker woman was a made at least 10,000 widows and upward v.-itness In a case which was being If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. sery. Feeling lest her "little daugh tended the Souhegan ministers' union at of 40,000 orphans. Hilford' Monday, They were entertained. tried one' day before Judge Garrison ter should be awakened and feel in a very hospitable manner at the home The total life cost ofthe civil war, from over In Jersey, and she wore' a big ^QS/ikLamp'idlti afraid, she slipped away to reassure of Bev. Mr, Pendleton, disease as well as death, was less than 300,- poke bonnet -which muffled her ears her. Pausing at the door, however. 000 lives. In the war of the revolution 23F ^^ • lamp^ Llewellyn S. Powers has purchased the and prevented her hearing the law In a vivid flash of lightning which il the American dead and wounded together _ jHt^^ for family use—safe, Chas. V, Hall homestead. yer's questions. Finally the lawyer lumined the whole room, she saw numbered less than 8,000. The total cost appealed to the Judge, and he ordered convenient, economical and a great light her youngest olive branch sitting Mrs. Mary Davis of Kendall Green, giver. If not with your dealer,write our near- of Cuba and the Philippines has-been less her to remove the bonnet. B*ralght up in beu. Her big brown • Mass., is the guest of Mrs. Eleanor Lam than 2,000 American lives. ettagency. prey at the Farrar homestead. "I'll do no such thing," she said, Standard Oil Company of NeMr 'Voric eyes were glowing with excitement, tartly. and she clapped her chubby hands Fred Warden and family, who recently Durine a single year American street (Incorporated) "I am accustomed to having my will moved to Amherst, have returned to town railways killed and injured a few less than while she shouted encouragingly, and -will occupy the E. J. Kideout home 49,000 persons. In Xew York the record respected," said the judge. "Bang It again,' God! Bang It stead. of twenty-seven days alone showed 42 "Well, I don't care if you are a For Results We Suggest again!"—.Brooklyn Life. deaths and 5,500 injuries. Judge, that bonnet stays right where 'Judge' Parker and Mr. Sylvester of it Is;" Nashua have been at Inncroft enjoying a "American industrial plants are estimat Work of a Steam Plough. "Perhaps, madam," the judge put in. few days' fishing. ^ ed to kill every year at least twenty-five The first steam plough in Saline thousand men and to injure 125,000 more. Ironically, "you would like to take ._ J- H. Bartlett bl Los Angele?, Cal., has County has just been sold to WiU niy place as judge, too, eh?" Johnson, who lives four inlies west hired the hotel here and will take possc's- American building operations cost 3,000 "Not a bit of It," she shot out, S mon June 1. - of Sallna. The plough has twelve lives every year and 10,000 other persons "there are enough old women on the sustain injuries. disks, which can be set FO as to cut • 'Harry Campbell is attending court at bench In Jersey as It Is." Manchester as juror. twelve furrows. When running two The American automobile accidents of and "one-half miles an hour, it will • Percy Betterley spent Sunday at home last year took 229 lives, without estimating . .from Worcester, coming on bis new motor the thousands more or less seriously in Duke of Wellington. plough thirty acres In ten hours. 'It cycle. jured. The Iron Duke bas always been a was started In a lOO-acre field at 3 mystery, i have read that he was six o'clock in the afternoon and Mr. NEW ADV.ERTISEEENTS fe^ four inches tall. I have read also Johnson finished the field two days that he was only flve feet six Inches. That's All later. He had two crews on and kept Historians tell us he was anywhere the plough running day and night. from five feet six inches to flve feet Mr. Johnson said he would never eleven inches. There are some things, bother with a common plough again. TMsth/en HolU^the Heat seemingly very simple, which it Is Im The plough turns the ground as well Don't make the mistake of buying au oven that gets hot only in spots—That Harlow & Parsons, Ag'ts, Ayer as a. walking or sulky plough. cools offjust as soon as a draft strikes it—That hasn't an even distribution of possible to establish; this Is one ot heat. Ask yonr dealer to show you the FLOBENCE CVEN, them. Historians are still guessing It's the best oven on the market. Made ot rust proof Blued Steel, hand the height of Julius Caesar, the size Pearl Is Carbonate of Lime. " somely embossed, witb the inside of corrugated tin. The wire cooking racks of Hannibal's head, the weight of Al are firm. The bars mnning from front to back instead of across are smooth The pearl Is aothlng but carbonate for sliding the dishes in or out, thus preventing the eloppinp of contents. It exander the Great and the general di hasaninterliningof Asbestos which seeps the neat in uml the oren bot, and mensions of Solomon. Why, we are of lime, and vinegar or any othpr acid besides the a ea not even sure of the stature of George Auctioneer will cut away the polished surface in Washington. It might be believed a te.i moments. As to the opal, hot that Napoleon, Alexander the Gretft water is fatal to it, destroying its and Jay Gould were of the same size, i.re, ana sometimes causing It to three bumptious little chaps. And it Reasonable crack. Soap lb a deadly enemy to is common belief that Charlemagne. the '.-Tfjuoise. If a turquoise ring is Erling the Bold, Frederick the Great, kept or. the hand while washing, In Robert Bruce, Sir William Wallace, a shjrt time the blue stones will turn ovcni Prices to .1 dingy green. has B specially constructed heat de. Gen. Winfield Scott and Richard Coeur flector, which divides the heat os it de Lion were all top-notchers, "Old esters so that it ts distributed equally Fuss and Feathers," formed In the Cup and Gown. incveo'pnrtoi the oven, Tbisisthe reason why everything baked in a prodigality of nature, leading In girth The new regulation at Bangor Unl. Florence Oven is bnkcdclcar through, Small and Large Sales and weight.-^New York Press. and not simply burned on tbe bottom. versity College, ordering women stu FOI convenience, economy and quicic dents to wear cap and gown, has cookinfir there's no oven made equal to the Florence. Can te u:ed on any suddenly transformed the dingy ciltgas or gasoline ito-.'e. Substitutes for Hello. Properly Executed streets of the town with the vision of Florence ovens art told by d«alen (lener- ally. If your dealer does not ».;U them, "Yes." said the telephone girl, "the dainty little girl graduates attired •exia for onr lUnstrated catalcgn*^, giving in their becoming robes. Women fnU description. w-ord 'Hello,' Is going out as an intro duction to wire talks. There was a seem to know the proper way to CENTRAL OIL AND GAS STOVE CO., 17 WMnttTtM ST.. nuTIM.MASS. time when everybody used it, but wear tho costume to add a new beau Makers ot tbecelebrsted FloreaceOll Stoves. now people are trying to get away ty and grace to their appearance.— Executive Offices and Factory:'atXlMia, MUt. from It, 1 guess. I am for one, I Woman know. F. H. Farmer OMMOXWEALTH OF -MASSACHUSETTS.— THERE is XOTHLNG BETTER "What are the substitutes? Well, Two-Mile Walk. C Middlesex ss. Probate Court. To the helrs-at-law, next of kin and all otlier persons THAN A they are many and various. I've Suggesting a two-mile walk to and interested in the e.st-atc of Susan A. Butter just used one. What Is It? Why. if.s Box 103 fron- one's office Is not uureasonable, field, late of Ayer, in said County. d(>-'"nit-,;. Well.' L.ots of folk announce them but t has been suggested by every Whereas, a certain instrurocLl' purporting selves for 'Weir nowadays. Others to be the last will and tPr^ament of said de VICTOR family doctor from time immemorial, ceased has been presented to said Court, for say 'yes' with a rising Inflection. Men, and usually has been systematically Probate, by George J. Bums, who prays -nhen they get a connection, are apt Littleton, Mass. and conscientiously neglected. Poor that letters testamentary may t,e issued to to say, 'That you?' It all helps to human nature Is not proof against him the executor therein named, without break up the monotony, and there's a giving a surety on his ofllcial bond. street cars, lutomoblles, and other You are herebv- cited to appear at a I'ro- big field for originality In the inno Or 15 Charclon St., Boston, Mass impedijients to health. —Chicago Bate Court to he held at Cambridge, in said vatlons." Tribune. County of Middlesex, on the twenfv-seventh day of May, A. D. 190S, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, to show oau.sc, if any you have, Bees in a Church. GIgundc Silver Tray. why the same should not Ite granted. Telephone : A gigantic traj of sdlld silver And said petitioner is hereby directed to For more than 20 years a swarm of give public notice thereof, by publishing this HIS MASTER'S VOICE" bees has been In the roof of the nave weighing more than 10,000 ounces, dtatfon once In each week, for three fueces- Talking Machine, $10 of Ifield (Eng.) Parish church. Haymarket, 1432 has 'us been madt by a firm In Lon- sive weeks, InTumcr'.s Public .Spirit, a news They have lately abused the hos • on for an Oriental potentate. The paper published In .-Vyer, the la.st publication to $300 tray is seven feet in diameter, and is to be one day, at Icvt, Iwfore said Court, and pitality shown them by coming Inside by mailing post-paid, or ndon,' Variety which .showed' that the • number of travel from place to place!" exclaimed _ , MAY HATCH Store the \ih80phUticated person, "I should ^-AUTOMOBILES Inmatet was 1,613, and of these. think it would take a great deal of en Barred Plymouth Rock 1.150 were o-ver,60 years old. durance to be an actor." CHICKENS • Ezpenilve .Law. "Oh,"'repllfed Slortoer Barnes, ab ABSOLUTELY TTHOlaGUGHBRED I have secured the Agency for the well- sent-mindedly, ''"long practice baa khown Stanley Autoj., Murray Auto. Tops, Ne-ve. York's law department will , STOCK, I2ia EACH and Puritan TanliB. It yoa are thinking of coft ^he taxpayers f'2,149 a day dur- made it possible for me to get along buying, now l« the time to order. Auto. »qp- with—irerjr lltUe food." BROWN LOAF FARM pllMofallklnd!. Expert on Stanley Ciir«. Ing nett year. , f hone, 17-13 OROTON, HAW. 3m29 TCfuxuoi X. FoBD, Sonth Aetoa,' ./•V ^•f m^A iX^-^^ ^?i^\^.. ^^^^^ t^ Mr Brlce, the superintendent, was dressing Tho yolks of two eggs beat seated beside Miss Lane's desk, and en light and add half a cup of; pow Fair Paid One Way OBBOOX AOAXa. before them stood Tod MiUer in evl dered sugar acd one cupful of sherry dent dlstre.ss.- - Work ' was suspended or port. If wine Is not liked, use a A Horns IndiutiT <» Vfbkh We Oa% and the attentlon_ot the pupils, was Wwnan'sWorM cup of orange juice with a tablespoon DURIXO THE MOXTH'OF MAY Excel imt Wblch U OrerlookcO. ful of lemou juico lii IL centered upon these Uiree. THE BABBITT CO., OP-hciAXS, Walter a Whltten of Newbtrgf "Ah,",said Mr..Brlce,- on perceiving WILL I'AV TIIK FAItK KllOM AYKU T' Ore,, Bpeaking of tbe mineral rii the late scholar, "I'm. glad to see you, ^MME. THAYER. Silhouette Embroidery. *J^ ^Bouroes of Onegoa, eald tbat tbe flrrf Tom J'lelda, for we would like you to The black profile of some bewitching LOWKLL OK ALL THEIR qUSTOMKRS KltOM Orifllnator of International Postgrad TIIK TOW.NS oy AYKIt, GROTO.N, HAllVAItD rough agates ia tbe world wer* answer some questions." Psyche or stern celebrity of the male tound on the Oregon coast at Keir<> uato Course For American Women. sex, strangely enoiigb, provides dec A.VU LITTLKTO.V WHO HAVK WOUK DONK "Yes, sir," said Tom politely. • There AT THEIU .VEW OKKICK OVKIt LAWLKIt'S prr» had been former encounters between The spirit of Interria'Uonbllpm Is oration to many ot the daintiest trifles BOOK STOKE, In tho manner of photo frames, trin "Tho winter Is the best time to flnd him an^d the superintendent, which •broad, which means the dra-wlng to thom, for during this season the both had cause to remember. gether of tho bonds which mak©.^for ket caskets, blotters, etc., in pastel col- orcd moire or satin, which are 'urther 81 MERRIMACK ST., LOWELL, oceaa current changes Its-dlrectloa "Well, then," continued Mr. Brlce, amity and peace. Cecil Rhodes ^as and washes away the surface sand THIEF AT VyiLLIS SCHOOL. "when your teacher sent you back to swayed by this spirit when he origi embellished with an array'of flowers and foliage in either shaded ribbon clear to the gravel. In which depo»-' the schoolhouse yesterday afternoon, nated big admirable scheme. No-w a Its the rough agates of all sizes may It Did Not Prove to Be the "Worst did you stop to do anything in the work or silk embroidery. A less strik BOSTOX A.VD XORTHERN ST. RY. Boy" In the Room, However. woman bas come forward to adapt this ing contrast Is dUplayed on a white CO. LOWELL DIVISION. be found. Sometimes the agate sea room besides the errand on which you son lastc but a couple of -Weeks, de came?" conception of a great mind for women. tea cozy, on which the ever graceful TIME TABLE. Mme. Thayer, the president of the group ot Incroyable and Mer.velileuse, pending entirely upon' tho InezpU- The dozen or more children who at It seemed to Tom that he was being ' (Subject to ehdnxe without notice.) cablo caprices of the sea, the winds, American circle of the Lyceum club, Indulging In a bit of innocent flirta tended the Willis' school were gath indirectly accused of something, and tbo tide and currents. The pure ered in the little front yard awaiting while ft made him angry, the con formulated her scheme and brought It tion, is delineated with the needle and WEEK DAY TIME. brush, one of these dlrectolre person grayish white silica gives us the car- the arrival of the new teacher. sciousness that yesterday had been before the education committee of the LEAVE MEItRIMACK SQUARE, LOWELL, nellan and_tho jasper, and where "Wonder what she looks like," said his red-letter day In good behav;^or. Society of American Women In' Lon ages standing on either Bide of a form FOR al tree of lite. Scenes from Punch both iron and manganese occur we Peggy Hopkins, for the hundredth kept him sufficiently calm to reply: don, of -which she was then chairman. Boston via Tewksburv, G.45 a.m., aud ev have the moonjstone.,. The coral and time. , and Dickens', too, enliven other cozies ery 60 minuter unjil 9Ai p.m. (Saturdays "Yes, sir, 1 picked Tody's penknife The scheme, a postgraduate stiidy of every 30 iuiuutes from 11.45 a.m. until 9.45 the cloudy are the finest and most "Not like you, I hope," came-4n a up aud threw it into his desk." Intended to grace the table of some two years af Oxford, Cambridge /or literary 5 o'clock tea in compliance p.m.) Betum, leave SulUvan Square, 0.45 a. delicate of tint and suggest pnrltr> taunting voice from the apple tree "In doing so, did you notice a dol m., and every CO minutes until 8.45 p.m. London university by distinguished with the increasing tendency of hav whle the camellan .and the jasper are nearby. To which Peggy, not at all lar bill there?" (Saturdays, every 30 minutes from 11.45 a. thq warm, rich, glowing s.tones, pep- abashed, shouted back: ing our surroundings In harmony with m. until U.I5 p.m.) "I did'hot, for I didn't look Inside the event or fancy of the hour. Even Boston via Xorth Billerlca, 5.23 a.m., and haps tho most valuable and most "You'd better come out of that tree, at all." • every 00 minutes until 0.25 p.m. (Satur the diabolo craze Is recalled on the eago-ly sought. The agate making Tom Fields, unless you want her to There was-a pause, during which days everj- 30 minutes from 12.23 p.m. un Is a home Industry entirely overlook leave right oft. Seems a shame that new elongated bags In brown linen, til 9.55 p.m.) Return, leave Sullivan Square Mr. Brlce took down a few notes and containing the sticks and Teel of the 0.32 a.m., and every 60 minutes until 9.32 p. ed, and one In which ,we can not onljr we can't have a teacher any time, just the pupils waited breathlessly. Miss m. (Saturxlays everv CO miuutes from 11.32 expel the foreigners In the reality of because you act so." game and illustrating a needle' picture a.m. until 9.32 p.m.) Lane looked at the boy In a sadly ot some ot the most 'charming move the rav( material but In tho variety "Oh, don't stop now. Peg," said Lawrence, 5.15,6.1.'), 0.40 a.m., and everv and supply." puzzled way, and Peggie Hopkins did ments of players cleverly outlined. 30 mhiutcs until 10.40 p.m. Ketum, leave Tom, good-naturedly, "I just love to not look at him at.all; two facts which Lawrence, 5.20,^10, 0.5V a.m., and even' 30 hear you talk." hurt Tom not a little. minutes until 10..')0 p.m. Tree Life. For answer the girl turned her back At last the superintendent began in How They Come. Xorth Chelmsford vi.i'Jliddlesex Street, on him. She and Tom were the That lined forehead sometimes Is a 5 18, e.OO, 0.30, 0.55, 7.03 a.m., and ever}- 16 Brazilian cocoanut palms live from this way: 600 to 700 years, and the Arabs as brightest pupils in the little school. "There tas been no boy in any of sign of years. More often it Is noth ing but dlsiigreeable evidence of bad sert tbat the date palm freqnently facial habits. , 11.48 p.m reaches.the age of 2Q0 to 300 years^ .Xashua, G.30 a.m.. and even- CO mhiutes Walian'B oak near Paisley, Scotland, Do you knit your eyebrows when In until 10.30 p.m. (Saturdav,s everv 30 min Is known to be more .than TOO yeare thought or down on your luck? It you utes from 12..30 p.m. until' 10.30 p.m.) Re old, and thete are eight olive trees do, rest assured you will have a fore turn, leave Xa.shua 6.20 a.m., and everv CO minutes until 10.20 p.m. (Saturdavs, everv on the Mount ot Olives 'near Jerusa head seamed with vertical Hues and 30 minutes from .1.20 p.m. until 10.50 p.m.)' lem, which are known to have been one, two or throe deep furrows be Tyngsboro vfa Jliddlesex St., 5.18, COO 0.55 fiourishing In 1099. The Jews of tween the eyes. 1.18 a.m., and everv P.() minutes until 9.48 p. Fountains Abbey, 'Xorkshlre, were Are you coquettish or sneering and m. Return, leave Tyngsboro,5.40,6.20,0.57, 7.33 a. m., and every 30 minutes until 9.33 p. old t- e'es whenln H32.the abbej was given to expressing your, emotions of m., 10.33 p.m. built and a redwood In • Mariposa wonder or contempt by raised eye TnoM.ts LEES, Supt. Grove, California, Is a manifold cen- brows and shrugs? If you do, you to-iicrian-. Baobab trees ot Africa wiil paj- for your lack of respect of Lowell and Fitchburg St. have been computed to be more than other people's feelings by a whole net 5,000 years old, .\nd the deciduous work of horizontal lines on a fore Railway Go. cypres! at Chautepec Is considered head that should be smooth as a well SUtE. rnjLYEB. Firi.t c;tr leaves Lowell for Aver at 5.33 a. to be of a still greater age. Hum fltted gown. boldt said that the Dracaena Draco at »tudents of their own universities at In theory an unwrinkled skin de m., and hourly thereafter until' 10.33 p.m. home, was received by the committee Connecting at Xorth Chehnsford on the hour. Orotava, on Tenerlffe, was one of mands placidity, but If we are not of Tyngsboro and Xorth Chelmsford cars make the oldest Inhabitants ot the earth. with enthusiasm, which applauded par the "Icily regular, splendidly null'' type connections. . . ., ticularly the "reciprocity side" to the Fir-st car leaves Ayer for Xorth Chehnsford and allow ourselves the luxury of at 6 a.in. ^ project. Which is to send Engllshwo-. tears and laughter at least we can re 039 Esperanto Societies. Cars arrive at Ayer 40 minutes .after the A publication just issued by the men for a two years' postgraduate frain from overemphasizing facial con hour aud leave on the hour till 10 p. m. study to America or Canada, to the tortions, with their sorry aftermath of First car leaves Xorth Chelmsford for Ayer central Esperantist office in Paris Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore, at G a. m. shows that thefe are 689 Esperanto deep nnd Ineffaceable lines. Cars arrive at Xorth Chelmsford 40 min for Instance, or to the McGUl univer utes after the hour and leave on the, hour till societies throughout the world, 38 sity In Canada. It is America's privi 11 p. m. Journals are published specially d^ There It Goes in the Organ. For.the Layette. Sundays, one hour later each terminus. voted to the propagation of the lan lege to make the start, and already, One of the most useful articles for after two short years' work, a very First car leave.~ Xorth Chelmsford at 6.30 guage, there are Esperanto consuls and admired each other very much in f my schools who has caused me so the layette is the flannel blanket for a. m., runnin;,' to Brookside onlv. Return or agents at 170 towns and the lan successful beginning bas been made. baby's bath. The bath blanket Is not ing, leaving Brookside at 6.25 a. in.; branch secret, while openly they were always much trouble as you have, Tom, Miss connection C.aj a. m., running through to guage has been accepted for use by The Society of American Women In only an apron for the protection of the quarreling. Lane has been the first teacher to Westford Center; leaving -Westford Center H different congresses. "I'll wager a dollar," ventured a find no fault with you. In truth, it London has pledged itself to a two mother's gown, but also a soft warm at7a. m., and hourlv thereafter to 10.35 p. m. Ilourly, leaving Xorth Chelmsford from tall, heavy.looking boy, "she doesn't seemed you -were exceptionally well- years' Income for one scholar from the -n-rap to Infold the delicate little body District of Columbia, while Mme. Thay of the Infant as it is taken from the 8.03 a. m. till 10.03 p. m. Production of Precious Metals. stay a week where Tom Fields is." behaved yesterday until a series of The runnmg time from Aver to Xorth "We want to see it first. Tody," facts leads me to take a different er herself has undertaken to raise one tub. These blankets arc usually made Chelmsford is forty minutes. At Lowell con Despite the great falling oft In the said the mocking voice In the tree. view ot your conduct, scholarship in perpetuity for her own ' of a good, heavy weight wool flannel, nections may be made for Boston, Lawrence, goii product of Colorado during tho Salem and all adjacent points. year 1906 that State still holds the Tod Miller flushed angrily, as he "Tody Miller left a dollar bill in his state ot Louisiana. The education com- aud two yards of material are required, pulled a bin from his pocket. mittee of the General Federation of Double the goods, which gives two C. V. jnLLS,"SUPT. lead of all the States and TerrltorJes desk. Two. other boys saw it there of this country, Includln^j Alaska, In "See it?" he said. "Now wouldn't and told him they thought it would be Women's Clubs in America has prom lengths of one yard each. Make a tuck you like to have it to pay for the win- ised to endow one scholarship in per an Inch deep where the flannel is fold Boston and Maine Railroad tho production of preclons metals. safe. The schoolhouse was found The figures for the year 1906 wer© do-n- you broke?" locked this morning and the money petuity and has recommended its gen ed over and run through It inch wide .\ probable quarrel was here pre eral body to" take up these scholarships wash rlbbou ot any preferred color, THROUGH TRAIX SERVICE $23,210,629, a decrease of $1,813.- was gone. The only person ^ho has IX EFFECT DEC. 16, 1907. 344. vented by the approach of Miss Lane, entered here since the others -.vere as one line of its work. The General having it sufficiently long to tie around the new teacher. As she stood talk Federation numbers 800,000 women the waist -n-hen in use. The edges ot dismissed was—" TK.\I.NS LKAVK AVEK ing to the children, she was very fa members and therefore Is well adapted this blanket apron may have a binding Mr. and Mrs. LaFoIlette Lawyers. "You needn't say any more, Mr. to help this wonderful scheme to a suc Chlc.%'o—tl0.2U. {10.36 a. m., •1.30, •5.05, vorably impressed by their bright Brlce," Tom Interrupted. '"Vou think of -n-ash ribbon correspoudlng In color -^".4'Jp. m It is not generally known that the cessful Issue. St, Louis—-fl0.2'i lool / ivt-AitAa —•WJ**" -•n v •MEDOL:,UU | A»p rurXT CEXTS A YEAS trip alone. Only three of bis classmates members of tbe CA R. for^nemoritl ser tbeir making tbe,bittial start «adm«ln(en-] ati)arimontb' college are new living, be vices atsoldiers' lot u JPe^pereUoemeteiy.' ance of this long-desired form of pbilan-1 , «r Ai>vAiroEj thropy, which wonld bring ogmfort in no . OXLY cite -DQIXARI '. having graduated in 1848. Foir twenty L J. 'Rowell is confined.iiji.Us^imi^ years be was a teacher; Since teaching be from a serious injury Thnrsday'suminf^ small degree to many wbo are ill, bat not Items ot local Interest are solicited, and has been connected vwith tbe University while repairing an agricaltural implemett( in a condition to require tbe continnoos' vnst always "be accompanied br the name of Pnblisbing Co. of New York, until his re by one of the jacks slipping 'away.,-and services of a trained ntirse. -ike miter, not for publication, out as agoar- cent retirement.. • strikingbtm. " ; ^!'.-', antee of good faith, and will always be oon- Mr. Carter, who owns and occupies the BASEBALL.—-The Littieton Orioles had Sdwed strictly conlldentlal, Kindly mall Friends of Boynton MerriU Will be pleas an exciting game witb one of the West •AYBR^lAaS. Items toon after the day of occurrence, ud George Nntting place, which he bought of ed to know that be is much improreq«, •-, do not-wait nnnecettartly. a Mr. Tborne, has bonght tbe O'Connell ford teams on the grounds of the latter place in the same neighborhood. Mr. Car; ANNUAL MEETINO.—The Prndence last Saturdajr. The Orioles consider tiiat WAWJH THB DATE ON VOUR PAPER. ter. It is said, bas sold his pasture to W. Wright Chapter, D.A.R,, beldthdr an);»fal tbey made a good showing, as tbebr oppo; SnhicrlbeM are urged to keep their sub- hents were older and* tougher in muscle Attractive Izam P. \Vharton, and report bas it tbat Mr. meeting in the Chapter bo'nse the first •exlptio&s paid in advance. Wharton has also bought the John Cum Monday afternoon iu May^to bear tlte r^' than themselves, tbe score at the finidi Ko paper will be stopped until all arrear- being 8 to 7 in favor of the Ortoles. The and aces are paid. mings place in that vicinity, of Mr. Snlli ports of the retiring officers and commit-^ van of fepperell. tees of the year ending, also to choose the salient features of ihe'came were a grand CBAKOB OF ADDRESS new ones for the ensuing year, . The re stand catch by Clyde Stetson andthe good SnbBcrtbers wishing the postoflice address - The bells rang for forest fires on San gent being chosen by vote nominated from hitting bv Clifton Ewing and Roger Priest. •t their psper changed mustsendus both the day, Monday and Tuesday. On Sunday uie floor, the other officers. by a printed The pitching of Archie Godfrey and the Muslin Gurtains •ld.and new address. the fire wasty the iUdges, near Knopps fielding of Bobert Carey and 'Wslter Somes pond, thought by some to have started ballot, that the non-resident members may- have the, privilege of csiting,a- vote; caught the final game.: Littleton boys IT IS WONDERFUL HOW MUCH BEAUTY AND COSINESS ABE JOHH HJ TTJBNER, PDBLISHER AUD PRO- from a not wholly extioguiihed campfire 'While there are about ninety membeirl^ think well of the cool shade of Westford • PRIETOR. left by campers. On Tuesday it broke common for afield game on such a warm CROWDED INTO A FEW DOLLARS' WORTH OF DRAPERJDESS. .' out" agahi. On Saturday the fire was a only fifty-six'votes were cast,>witb the'-fol SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1908. lowing iresalt: ' j' ' day as Satarday last. Anotber game will THE BABE FLATNESS ..OF A PLAIN UNFURNISHED LOOKING small aSur toward North Groton, nearthe be played between the'teams on Littieton Gustin place. Hrs. C. D. Hutchinson, regent; Mrs.~E.&; BOOM DISAPPEARS WHEN THE CURTAINS COME TO GIVE IT A QROTON. BIChsrdSon, vice-regent; Hrs. M.E,SwBiMy,- old common this forenoon, commencing at H. W. Mason is working for Fred Tuttie Bec.: Mrs. B. H. Blood, cor. sec.; Hrs.>NeP ten o'clock. HOMEJ-JLKE AIR. . , TABLET DEDICATED.—rProminent in re building Mr. Folkihs's house in the vicinity He H. GutteiBon, treas.; MIss.Eleanor Ijivr- cent events in Groton are the memorial of Groton School. " ;rence, registrar. •'"-:::,.'•• —.i - CANTATA—^If a large and enthnsisstic Arid it Costs so Little to Add so Much exercises connected with the erection of The new officers were then escwted to audience is the only required evidence of tbe mmmmental tablet at the grave of the James T. Bennett' is building a garage HERE ARE THE PRICES : ' at the rear of his resideiice. thehr places by the osher present, Hrs,.£. success, theh Mrs. Webber mast feel very late Hon. George S. BontweU, on Friday L. Tarbell, the past officer retlrihgj the well satisfied with the time and effort she aiternoon. May 16. Several hundred cit Mr. and Mrs. James Lawrence returned installation taking pUce very, pleasantly,- basso freely granted to the preparation Nottingham LaCe ..Curtains, 3 yards long" at izens of "this and other towns and cities to their Groton home Tuesday. -V " as it shoald, the day of the annual meet-, of " The ladr of-Shalot,"j^ven in Uie Uni •isemUed at; the; cemetery, where it had The L.B.8. of tbe Congr^tic^j^-chnrcb ine. .•"''•.' '•. .u- tarian cburch on.W^nesday evening last. 75c., 89G., $1.00 and $1.^5 been plsAned to hold ail the ceremonies. are to hold a food sale at the lO^^^ par • It was then adjourned over to.the a&eB< No onecan ever say ^^n tbat ths aver Bnt aner a choir of' Groton School boys lor on Thursday afternoon, Mil^a. Be noon of May 15 to hear the reports of 141*^ age Littletonian'Soes hot appreciate good ;.-' per pair ^ bad tnn^ and Gea - S. Bpntwell post of sides the nsual articles of fooa pSered on- Annetta Merrill, who was tne Chapter's music, for in spite of threatening-weather, Ayer bad placed, their o£fering-^a very such occasions, there will be 6n^,s^Js va- delegate to the seventeenth- Cohtine^iM' the vestry was packed.;'The clnb iwcbeai Muslin Curtains, cluster tucked, insertion trim- Urge and.umdsome wreath .of calla lilies, riety.of pjire, toothsome bomeioiidecandy, congress, held in Washington, J). C., in .uie tra, the, members Of whicb are too well E.S. clack post.ol Groton, theirs, equally including .salted peanuts,':dip|>ed!iaIinonds, montii of April.' . Her able and'conclsti're known to bementioned every time, played med, hemstitched, ruffles, 2 1-^2 yar'dslong at large, beantiful and apprppriate^a -wreath and;old-mis]ilonea cocoanut careSf-aU strict port'Was listened to with attention aind a very acceptably and their numbers were of fitirel, the"-w.R.C. of Ayer a fine, large ly homemade. -There will be-an enter vote of thanks given her by the Cbapfen well appreciated. A hnmorous reading spray of'carnations, and other bonqnets tainment, ih .the-evening. Icecream will Mrs. N.'<£. Merrill was die alternate for -was given by Mrs. Lillian Priest and solo SOc, 69c., 75c., Sl.OO, $1.25. and Iidd, it was thonght best to adjonm to the be on sale-afternoon and'erenhig. -' the re^i/lAt, who was unable to attend tbe by Gr. A' Cook. Tbe prologne of the can town ball, where 'the exercises were con congress. tata was read by Mrs. Priest before the cluded.' Frank Lawreifce is' going to have a new $1.39 per pair house'bnilt on High-st . Itistobeon.Iand . Mrs^ Hutchinson then annonnced tbe mnsic began. Mrs. Eleanor Fox Allen of Tbe pure wbite tablet of statuary mar near the Unitarian parson^e,.. and honeht standing ^mmittees for tbe condng-year, Boston', the soloist of the evening; gracious ble, substantial yet simple and unpreten- from that estate. James T. Bennett Has after wUch an adjonmment. was taken ly favored the audience witii song and en tiotu, plain yet of distinct worth, well typi the building of it. , for tbe-'iocfal honr which followed. core -in the early part of the evening. fies tiie characteristics of the man whose ^Whatever Mrs. Allen sings, she has the Miss Friend's school, Farmer's Row, is Ligbt refreshments were served by a Window Shades memory it will help perpetuate, and des special committee. power of taking her hearers into depths of ignate the last restii^-place of him who to close permanently, we hear, in June. shady woods, forest quiet or mountain HOUSE CLEANING TIME IS THE TIME FOR NEW WINDOW when vritb us was Groton's most disUn- Miss Friend -will open a school in Califor heights, into the joy and blooni of spring, SHADES. nia. . I PRESENTATIOK.^—Last week Friday gnished citizen. The inscription in letters afternoon five of the former members:0f just as she wills. In the solos of the CSUT of black is aa follows: Groton lodge, I.O.O.F., has accepted an tata she.sang with certainty and great WE CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH OIL AND WATER COLOR SHADES the W.R.C. visited the Mun-st.: school and IN ALL THE BEST COLORS. SPECIAL SHADES MADE TO ORDER InMemoiyof ___ invitation to visit West Acton lodge Mon presented it with twoof-tbeb' dlk'flags; beauty of'expression, and through ttall GEOSGE SEWALL BOUTWELL I day night, May 25. The pupils assembled in tbe lower ballway kept tbe audience in perfect accordance ON SHORT NOTICE, AT VERY LOWEST PRICES. Jan. 28; 1818 . Thomas Bywater, who was run into last and rendered several patriotic selections.. with tbe spirit of tbe story of Lancelot and Feb. 27,1905 Suoday by the rider of a motor cycle, Mrs. Bean gave a very interesting and in-; the lady .01 Shalot Governor of Uassachn setts escaped injury, except some bruises and structive paper 6n the history of tbe -flagi The chorus, consisting of Mmes. Cox, . Bepresentative and Senator soreness caused by the collision. lyliss CM. Shattuck, the principal of tb^ Hart-well, Prouty,- Go ":•<:-'•>;•••• :Mv:^Zi^zr-^Z'S'- <• • •••••'.,•• '- ;,•;,*•-TV;-.s?r,fTt^-'S , H^MMM«BNiaM_ ^ ONEDOLLAR: CENiii' friends and mattyes atteiidisil:tlie funeral, ; • Mrs." E. A. Kndiay of BbpailCwfei?!^' Jite% Graves of Ayer Is visiting with anombsrhdiTg(rosn'Ayer.-':~z,'/ '.-'^ tamed May 16,' oh a' pernianwii rlinM, |U». ^Carman for a few days. TO-AJA. *rZ'ADVdMOZ •fViafO-pVfiBtXtBKRB her brother,' 'Wlllkm Crombfe. .'She-i*? ; ,;0n. Thursda) afternoon Mrs. Thomas THS AJ(vtJAX.:ifjk VESTivi^'iia ai4,of ports everything snowy on; the Wg ihllla Dolan gave a party to a number of young St.- Mary's ohorchVtbbV place. Thtnrsday through New Mexico ud Arlroniu; -.^'.•; people at ber summer home, far honor ox I Tates'z«ssonable'~ahd farnished etening in J^age's baU; Xirery seat was~ ner. son, Thomas, jr., the event being his Advei. _ Chas. £, Perrin, who has .conducted the Warnin ou appUoatioa.,^.; filled, m^ peoplo^^bbd im^ from fifty to tenth birthday anniversary. The. yonng business of the Forest Hooper Co^ ever seventy-fire ticket bolders'iMireimable to people liad a jolly good time playing games: "Tls te thSTetuand Press we mortals ows> since ihe firm started the. plumbing bofir YOU ARE HEREBY WARNED NOT TO FORGET TO HAVE YOUB* attend. Over foar hahdred'were present' Ises and candies were served and • piece AU we believe and-abnost all we know.". ness in -town, has purchased the Pooper Part: one of the entertainment was remark- of birthday cake was given eacbon leav- interest and is now theisole {nroprietbrand LAWN MOWERS .' .SATURDAY, MAY 2S, 1908. ablv 'picturesqae, and charmingi The. ingi Those present were; .'".' will continne the bnsiness at bis shop oh girls Were crowned :and decorated with • jMargaret Dolan, Webster Sawyer, Cedric SHARPENED BY OUR AUTOMATIC GRINDING MACHINE. West-st,-.. :••'•,•••:- ' • • . AXBR. •, ; : nowers adding l^e beauty of color. to' the Webster, Mildred Carman, LewanaWebster, EVERY LAWN MOWER WE GRIND AND REPAIR IS GUARANTEED whitecostame^ and forming a-pictare fair . The I-D.w.c, an organization amone'.the ^essa Webster, Mildred WOodlahd, Helen TO CUT. :xA onAKD CAMFriBK was held in town to look upon. Among the Opening na'm- telephone gurls, gave a dance in Page nail,- Woodland, Ilerl,ert Dickson, Dorothy West, hall, Friday evening, May 16, and was GIVE US A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED THAT WE DO FIRST- bers. were these: Dances—skip rope by Friday evening. May 16. It was thelarg- EUeryHoyal. ' . CLASS WORK. well attended. Some over thirty comrades Charlotte MacDuffie'and Espanita- by est gathering of the kin,d held in Ayer for were present from Fitchburg and about Ruth'MacDuffie; these little-misses in some time. _^ Goests were present from STILL RIVKR. , the same nnmber,from Leominster, and bright and attractive dress did their parts many of the sorronndingtown^ with whom ROBERT MURPHY & SONS several from other posts. The depart witn wonderful skill; the song; "Smarty," the girls had a speaking acquaintance and ' NEWS ITEMS The annual convenUon ment-commander ana staff were-present. by Evelyn Moore was. fine; a medley-of were.glad of an opportunity of seeing their, of. the King's Daughters of .Worcester Knife and Machine Works Among the speakers were Commander friends face to face. Sixty dollars were popular airs was given by these, hoys as connty was held with Sobd^Cheer circle PnoKE, 86-3. . FLA:(AOAJ<'8 CBOBSIXO, AYER, MASS. Qickinson, Dept. Com. Roe, Si V. Com. tenlittie niggers: .'• realized. \ ofHarvard at Ihe Baptisf ^nrcb Thnrs Parker, J. V. Brown j Asst Adjt Gen. Charlie Mullin, Xeo.Orrah, Wliile Barrett, At the daiice given Tuesday evening for day, and it was a most enjoyable occasion Wetherbee, Gen. Kimball and Hon. Geio; for the many members wpo were, present J. Bums. The eiccellent-shiging by the Arthur Cbnghlin, Thos. Walsh,Mark Moore, the Chelsea softerers there was a good at Lawn Swings and Hammocks Willie Hurl^Paul Carrigan,-Jobn O'Neil^ tendance and the sum of twenty doll^ from all over the county. The devotional Corinthian quartet was a very pleasant Thos. McGuane, with Harry HacDufBe as exercises at ten a.m. were conducted by featmro, each nnmber being recrived with Blllie, the little black leader, who later danced was realized. Are Not In It With a ajfc - ' ' Mrs.'Mary E. StowelL : Miss La'ara A- great'applaose. Mrs. Elizabeth £. Low moved Fridajr Brown gave the address of welcome in her ' 'After Issolng rations the balance of time A hnmorons selection by Madeline Don from-her home on Church-st., to tbe'ni^ier pleasing manner, and -Mrs. A.'C. Foller anUl a late hour was spent in singing War lon was given with fine expression and tenement in A. B. Downing's house on bf Fitehburg responded! -Miss Louise Gale songs,' telling war stories^with .pipes or showed good ability in its rendering. The Washington-st. She had quite an ill turn GOM FORT C HAl R sang; a bountiful lunch-was served. The cigars for those who vrished. There has Venetian flowsr. dance, was skilfully and on Wednesday, but is improving. afternoon exercises were, conducted by not been a 'campfire in Aver before for prettily execnted by Augusta Carlson, wbo has lived ih the Bev. L. H. Morse, jmd Mrs. W. C. Hasr For real, comfort and convenience. , sixteen, years.; There' will not be manv UoUle SDllivim, Hand Organ, Katherine famUr of Dr. Hopkins for some thne, and kell and Helen Stone gave a 'jpiano and I'hey recline or-swing. The frame is more anywhere, as die comrades are rapid- Crowley, Florence Weldon, .Irene Qirard, who IS a.slster of Mrs. W. A. BoutUlier, organ duet, and Mrs; M. Sawtelle an ad constructed «f steel aiid coated with • ly passing over the river. Alice andHadellneMcCarthv,MsdeUne Carl leaves Boston for Liverpool on steuner dress on the state work..' son, Lillian Heehan, Edna McMahon, Bertha Rust-proof Enamel, making them Saxonia, Jane !2,tand from there she goes Walsh, KatherineDonafane, Teresa Uarkham, ;Kfiss Eliza Bateman has returnetd from _ THE MIDDLESEX COUKTBY CHJB won to Guttenberg,'Sweden, her former home, strong, Ught and durable. They are » Kathleen Hackett, HadeUne O'Neil, LlUlan her 'visit to Bermnda and reports a most Its first tennis match ofthe season aeainst HcGnane. A^gnes Hoore, Georgianna Glrard', where .jhewiU remain for two or three luxury to. yonng and old and equally enjoyable time. • the Winsor clnb at Watertown on Satut^ Lillian UcUahon, Beatrfce Haynard, Dells months. . / ^ \- •. ; ^ desirable on the porch, lawn, or indoors. day afternoon, .May;16,;by the score of 10 and Uary Devsmey, Helen Harkham and .No services at the Sdll River church (3n W. A.'Boutillier'has purchased a farm to 6. Several ladies accompanied the Alice Hoore. Others who took part lii the Sunday, on acconnt of union memorial Call and examine them'and yon wiH of sixty-five-acrei, situated, about half'a team, and the day was a delightful one in chorus were Gertrude Carrigan, Gertrude services at Unitarian church in Harvard. be interested to own one,'cn; remit price HcCarthy and Leonard Bowler. mile from Shirley Center, of Miss Helen etery respect.- ; Mrs. John Vose of West Acton was a by mail and have one shipped to yon Part two was an amusing drama, " The M. Winslow, and will occupy it about; the The Winsor clnb isonis ofthe best equip district school," in three scenes. There mfddle of next month.-:.This farm adjoins guest of Mrs. A- H. Keyes Wedaes4ay. prepaid: ped country clubs in the state, and their was lots of fan in' this and tiie parts were the George Holden farm. Mr. Bontillier A timely suggestion is one of onr members'extended a royal welcome to the BOXBOROUGH. ,"". well done. will let'hia house on Forest-str He will Middlesex ddb and their friends on tills continue collecting milk on his Shirley occasion. While the tennis matches were Committee—F. Lehan, W. Meehan, T. Piaizza Screens Fitzgerald. ' route for the present.- .. NEWS ITJEMS.—On Tuesday theionse- being played, the ladies were taken on an hold goods of Robert Y. Tait ^f,'Boston, Applicants^usie Ney Ion, Hary McCarthy, Mrs. Robinson, wife of Postinaster Rob automobile ride through 'Belmont and Nom Culllnan, Chas. Mullin. arrived here and he took possession of the inson, went to EUiott honiital, Comthon- Waverley,' letniming in time for the colla Pupils—Ella Hbore. NonT Culllnan, Mary Alfred Cobleigh place, which he has re wealth avenue, Boston, May 11, and the tion which wair served at 6.80 p. m. Moore, Mary HcCarthy^ Anna Ryan, Nellie cently bought. Mr. Cobleigh and familv McCabe, Hary Daley, Lilly Lahey, SusIeHo- following Wednesday was operated ni>on, $4.50 FURNITURE, GflR-PETS In the evening a p'rdgressive whist and have moved into part of Nelson Cobleigh's Carthy, Hattie Davis, J. Hooley, T. Fitzger and is now doing nicely.' Sne expects to bridge-party was arranged for the ladies, ald, J. O'Neil, P. Grffln, J. Mullhi, W. Mo- honse for the present. retnrn home in a conple of weeks. while the gentlemen rep^red to tte bowl Curthy, J. McCarthy, Geo. Wilson, W. Bow . There was no schoolat No. 3,-Monday, And House Furnishings ler. ing allies tb determine the club suprem Lady Emma chapter, O,E.S., of.JEItch- as Miss Moore visited the Littleton schools acy. The.Winsor clnb was iuccessfnt in Visitors—Anns Smith, Susie Keyion; Lillie burg is to have a milituv whist and danc^ that.-day.. this match, their representatives winning Weldon. at Whalom pavilion, Monday- eyeniiig,.- two conseciitive strings. At 9.80 the floor The success of the whole was largely May 25. - Ida .McKinley chapter' and - - Miss Ella Raymond of Somerville was a was cleared and dancing was enjoyed tm- doe to Mrs. Jennie Clarke MacDuffie', who friends are invited to attend, and they can Week-end guest at Mrs. Elizabeth Hager's. W.WRIGHT & SON til leaving time. drilled the actors and 'was nnsparing in rocure tickets of Mrs. Filiebrown or Mrs. On account af the rain on May 7, tha Those Who made up the Middlesex the time and effort nsed. Dancing follow Sawyer. They will leave here on' seven ladies' circle postponed their regular meet Country club's party were as follows:' • ed the entertainment. The music -was o'clock electric... ing nntil Friday evening. May 15, at which •;t .: Ayer, M Kittredge's orchestra with Miss Kelley at Dr. and Hrs. B. H. Hopkins, Hr. and Mrs. The Jolly Twelve had a birthday party time Mrs.' Viets gavp avery interesting ac the piano. . T, W, Sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bevcrlyj with Mrs. A. 6. Tarrant, May 21.. A count of her recent trip to Washington. Mr. and Hrs. W. W. Hannhig, Hr. and Mrs. bountiful collation was served by . the ' Miss Mabel Lawrence spent Sunday C. W. Godfrey of Fitchburg, Mr. and Mrs. BASEBALL.—The high school baseball hostess. The fioral decorations were beau with her sister in Gleasondale. B. W. Bobbinsof Leominster, Miss Gertrude team' met 'witii its first defeat this season tlfnl and the artistic way the favors were - Mrs. Hattie Thurston has come from L. Conant and Mlsi Ellen Tewksbury of on Saturday, May 16, in the contest on presented cansed.no enaj)ffan. The clab Hamilton to spend the summer with her Shirley, L. K. Clark, Harry R. Draper, K.D. Civic field with the high school team from Coolidge, T. E. Clark, W: H. Valentine, C. is righUy named. . The club as a surprise Clinton, in which the visiting team won by mother. W. Morse. {^resented Mrs. Tarrant with a handsome a score of 9 to 7. For six innings neither Herbert Cobleigh was at his mother's and very useful present. . . HIGH SCHOOL HONORED.^At a recent side succeeded in getting a man past third over Sunday.. Rollstone Building, 127 Main St., Fitchburg. meeting of the New England college en base. In the fifteenth inning Clinton St.. Andrew's charch—Celebration holy Miss Mary Nelson entertained- Miss COMMENCED BUSINESS, 1868. trance examination board the Ayer high scored twice. The game was exciting and commanion at ten; morning pra;^er and ser Florence Eaton of i^merville oyer Sunday mon at 10.45; Sunday school at twelve; even school was placed, for a second time, on well played on both sides and lasted two and this week enjoyed a' -visit from Mrs. "QUARTER DAYS," JANUARY 1, APRIL 1, JULY 1, OCTOBER 1. and three-quarters hours. song and sermon, Forge Village mission, 4.30 the list df approved schools. This act, in p.m. Ascension day, Thursday, May 28. A Laura Norton Boyce of Middlebury, Vt. the light of more exacting requirements On Monday afternoon the Red Tags celebration of holy, communion at 9.30 a.m. Several from here attended the annual from year to year by the colleges, speaks This Bank has never paid less than defeated the Lancaster Bandits by a score convention of the Concord district Massa well for the standing of the school' and its At the Congregational church, Sunday of 15 to 6. morning, the sermon will IJC preached by chusetts Sanday school association, held FOUR PER CENT, to its Depositors. graduates who have entered college on Kev. A. F. Newton of North Leominster. at South Acton, Thursday afternoon and certificate. The high school principal's On Wednesday afternoon the Red Tags Tbe pastor will preauh in the evening on this OR SALE.—12 large dark Barred Plv evening. May 14. At the afternoon ses certificate now admits a student, without won from the high school by a score of 6 subject: " The power of silence." F mouth Bock Hens and Booster. Mu'st P. DONLON & CO. sion the service of prayer and praise was be sold at once. Bargain for someone. Xo examrnatioDS, to any .State normal school to 4. - 'Wm. Crombie has just received a very in Jed by Rev. F. H. Viets. There are twen triflers. JOHN E. ADAMS, Cor. Chapel and or to the following colleges: Amherst col The high school and the alumni will teresting letter from Col. Philip Reade, 23d DEALERS IJf ty-four Sanday schools included in this Porter Sts., Shirley, Mass. 2w35 lege, Boston university, Bowdoin"college. play at Civic field at 9.80 o'clock'on May U. S. infantry, dated Zamboanga, Philippine Inlands, March 30, in which he fully describes (Hstrict and both meetings were very, in-^, Brown university. Mount Holyoke college, 30. It will be one of the best games of EPORT of the condition of the First Na the voyage by transport from San Francisco teresting. Dartmonth college. Smith college. Tufts R tional Bank of Ayer, at Ayer in the State the season. to Manila, where his command of 29 officer.^ of Massachusetts, at 'the closc of business. college, Univerrity of Maine, University of und 805 men arrived March 10. Col. now NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. May U, 190S. Fine Vermont, Wesleyan University, Williams NEWS ITEMS.—The annual public Gen. Reade's well-deserved commission as RESOUnCES college, Wellesley college. speaking of the high school will take place Brig.-Gen., is dated May 3,1908. He -nill Ije Loans and discounts ?339,GS1 14 on Friday eveniog, June 5, in town hall. retired Oct. 5 next, when' he will return to Cure the Cause. Overdrafts, secured and unsecur his bome at Lowell. * ed «- 70 DEATH.—Ellen Anna (Mason) Stone, Tbe speakers have been for several weeks Groceries under the able instruction of Miss Mona Have you seen Charles Hassam's newly- U. S. bonds to secure circulation 20,000 00 a former resident of Groton and Ayer HOW TO REMEDY MUCH OF THE Bonds,'8ecuritles, etc. 77,720 SO Bell,e Welch and the program bids fair to painted aatomobile!' It is a fine job done by ASD died at the home of' her son in Belmont W. A. P. Bird, at his new shop, Central-ave., SUFFERING IN AYER. Other real estate owned 877 SO on May 14, 1908. She was born in Quin be one of the best ever given by the school. Ayer. Ile alno painted Ur. Godfrey's tour Due from approved reserve agents 52,833 10 cy, where her parents resided for a short Mrs. Julia Ward. Howe passed through ing car of Littleton, and will have 'VV. C. Par Half tbe sickness and suffering iu Xotcs of other Xatlonal Banks, 635 00 - General time, upon October 26, 1832. Her father son's auto painted and ready for use May 30. • Fractional paper currencv,nickcl8 Ayer Monday, May 18, on her way to Ayer comes from a weak stomach. and cents ' iZ 09 was Aaron Mason irho lived the larger Boston, Mrs. Howe's home. She had been Gare tbe cause by using Mi.o-na Lawful monev reserve in bank, viz: Merchandise part of bis life in Groton and in Ayer and HARVARD. visiting her grandson at the Groton School Stomach Tablets and be well and hap Specie • $17,361 GO was well known to many of our older in and was a guest of Wm. A. Gardner. Mrs. Legal-lender notes . 10,000 00 27,361 60 py. ' habitants. Her mother was Sybil Parker Howe was accompanied by her daughter. NEWS ITEMS.—Monday evening, May Redemption fund with U. S. treas urer (5 percent of circula Mason of Groton, a descendant of the She will be eighty-nine years of age Wed 25, the grand officers of the Massacuusetts JEven the most chronic cases yield AGENTS FOR grand lodge, I.O.O.F., will visit Harvard tion) 1000 00 Parker family' which has been so promi- nesday, May 27. to'Mi-o na. W. C. Worrell, connect Due from L". S. Treasurer, other nenUy coanectcd with the historv of that lodge. Supper will be served in the ban ed with the Lake Shore Railroad for Memorial day George S. Boutweli post th:m 5 percent redemption CUNARD. WHITE STAR AND AN town. ^rs. Stone was of the old Puritan quet hall at seven o'clock. It is hoped a yei^rs, says: " For fifteen years I had fund . • 000 00 stock and traces her descent from many will start at eight o'clock for St. Mary's large audience will be present. CHOR STEAMSHIP LINES. cemetery; from there to Woodlawn, ar acute stomach tronblc and nothing Total «521,20C 02 well-known families prominent in colonial The Bromfield ball team ]oIayed last times. She was of the eighth generation riving at 9.30; thence to Harvard, arriving helped me. A friend recoramendea LIABItlTIES Saturday with the Lancaster high and de Capital stock paid In $75,000 00 from Captain Ilugh Mason of Watertown, at eleven o'clock. Dinner at Harvard and Mi-o-na and two boxes entirely cured arrive at Shirley Village at two o'clock and feated them by a score of 7 to 4. Wed Surplus fund 25,000 00 who settled ttiere in 1634 and was first me." Umilvlded profits, less expenses at Shirley Center at 8.30. nesday they played the Groton high and selectman of the town and leader of its were defeated by a score of 10 to 1. This Cure the ciuse of your suffering and taxes paid 31,911 98 Desirable Village Prop Xatlonal bank notes outstanding 19,400 00 military company. Post 48 o.A.R. will attend Memorial ser Saturday they play the Groton high at and bo well and happy. vice at the Unitarian church at Harvard Due to other nationidbanks 034 12 erty bought and sold On December 25, 1854, the was mar Groton. ' If the stomach is weak and you Due to t^st compam^B and sav- on Sunday morning. May 24, and in the ried to Valancourt Stone of Groton who Last Sunday Mrs. Royal, Miss Hersey ha've indigestion, flatulence, dizzi IngTbanks 3,421 29 Univeralist charch, Shirley, Sunday morn Dividends unpaid 315 00 died about a year and a half ago. They aod Mrs. Lawrence took an automobile ing; May 31. ness, headache, etc., get a box of Mi- Individual deposits subject to had three children, Lizzie Ellen (Stone) ride to Roxbury and called on Mr. and o-no from William Brown, They •check 304,820 37 Starr, now a resident of Pepperell; George Henry &• Turner and John Lentz- went Mrs. Bert Trook and Miss S; E. H. Far- gire an absolute guarantee to refund Demand certificates of deposit 802 26. GIVE US A CALL AT MEAD'S Valancourt Stone, who died in Newton in to Lake -Winnepaasaukee last week Fri well. They report a very pleasant trip, Cashier's checks outHtandIng 395 Od 1893, leaving one son. Mason Hills Stone, day on a fishing trip and retarned Snnday the money unless Mi-o-na cures. BLOCK, MAIN ST., Benjamin Burpee of New York city was now a student in the Harvard Law school; night. They report a small cateb as the Total $521,206 02 in town this -week attending to business and Hon. Arthur P. Stone of Belmont. water is too high. •" ; State of Massachusetts, County of Middlesex. AYER, MASS. matters. Mr. Burpee has charge of an POULIUS' Mrs. Stone spent much of her time with The following officers were elected in ss: • , apartment house in New York. I, Hobart E. Mead, cashier of.the above- her daughter in Pepperell and was well the Ayer district of the Massachusetts The A.o.B.w. club will hold a social named bank, do solemn! v swear that the above known in that town. Sunday school association, held Friday, statement Is true tothe best of my knowledge There is-Only When a resident of Ayer, and later at May 15, in the Methodist church: dance in the hall Friday evening. May 29. QuickC and belief. -• Groton, she was a regular attendant at the Supt. E. P. Csrr., pres.; Eev. K. H. Carey Lost on Wednesday evening, May 18, a . Ubbart E. Meml, Cashier. One Way - Unitariaachurches in both towns and took young lady, rather tall, with a winning Subscribed and sworn to beforo me' this ot Littleton, vice-pres.; Miss Elsie Shattuck THAT YOtT CAN HAVE a prominent part in the social and relig- of Groton, sec. and treas.; Mrs. A. L. 'Wright smile. If found please return to tlic night 2lRt day of May, 1008. of Shirley, sec. of elementary dept.'; Supt. C. Lunch- Warren H. Atwood, Notary Public. Jous work of the parishes. She was seven watebman. L. Clay 01 Harvard, sec. of advanced grade: Beautiful Soft Skin - th-five years old at the thne of her death The blacksmith who has been working Correct—Attest: ' ' Rev. K. W. Drawbridge of Fepperell, 8cc. of Thomas L. Hazen, and had spent her years quietly" at the teachers' tralnbg dept.; A. S. Howard of for J. S. Preston has moved his family to AYER AND TnAT IS BY USIKO homes of her children. A woman of ready Oliver K. Pierce, Townsend, sec. of home dept.; these officers Shirley. Howanl B. White, wit, of a kindly nature, and of remarkable and Rev. C. W. Turner, Kev. 6. M. Howe Last Sunday Rev. Chas. F. Echterbeck- Directors. GRAY'S •• .5?^ judgment, she made her presence felt in and Geo. H. Bixby of Groton are the execu THE PROPRIETORS HAVE OPEN er, for the past five years assistant pastor the communities in which she lived. An tive committee^ ED IN THEIR FRUIT STORE O LETTTA Cottage of 4 rooms in excel SOLIDIFIED unselfish mother, she brought her children Mrs. Sarah Ybung of Stonebam is visit of a church in Hyde Park, and a thorough T lent condition, with water. In center of to mature years with care and devotion, ing Mrs. 8. F. Farnswortii. ^ ly np-to-date young man, preached at the village of Groton. Inquire of DR. D. R. Congregational church. His sermon was STKKRE, Groton. 30tf GLYCERINE and aided tbem in their after life with love Miss Avis A. Burns went to Poughkeep- A Quick Lunch very scbolarljrand his work in both morn and good counsel. , . sie, N. Y., on Ma;^.'15, to attend the com IP-YOU WANT ANY TAILORI.VO DONE ing.and evening services was very satis mencement exercises at Vassar college. Room CALL OX IT IS AN EXQUISITE AND DE H«r funeral services were held at her factory and pleasing to the people. She was the gnest of Miss Barbara Hazen home"in Belmont on-May 17, Rev. George ' Sunday morning. May 24, memorial ser UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF AN LIGHTFUL TOILETPREPARATION of Shirley. Tuesday night-she went from Hall Recdot thattown conducting a simple vices will be held at the Unitarian charch. EXCELLENT CHEF, ,~ AND IF USED REGULARLY WILL Vassar to Atlantic City withher father, NATHAN KATZ service in her memory. Her body was Rev. J. P. Sheafe will preach the sermon. Hon, Geo'.'J. Bums, to attend a conven PRODUCE THE SOFTEST, TEN- cremated at Mount- Anburn cemetery in The o.A.R. and w.nc. will be present. AU Home Cooking and THK tion. - She returned Thursday, night. DEREST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL accordance with her wishes and later the Music by tho union choirs. Everybody . Mrs. W. N. Cowles hais as guest her ashes were placed in her family lot at invited to attend. ' - the Best Ayer Tailor SKIN. IT QUICKLY AND EFFEC Woodlawn cemetery In Ayer. . niece, "Miss Anthony from Fall River. TIVELY CURES " Thomas Higes and wife are keeping ALL KIN^S OF SOFT DRINKS, IN .PEARL ST., NEAR ELECTRIC LIGHT Monday, May 18, Mrs. Frederick W. ^3T Chesta P. Mills of-Flat Hill, Lunen house in James H. Whitney's cottage. CLUDING MOXIE AND STATION Moses and Mrs." Benjamin Taft went to burg, for over thirty vears a resident of DR. SWETT'S FAMOUS ROOT BEER Chapped Hands, New York, where tiiey are spending the Snndav, May 2l, at the.Co'Dgregational. Ayer, went to Massacnnsettt general hos wee'k, ••,,•••,. -•'~^-^,__ ohurch the regular Sunday school will be A PULL LINE OF FOREIGN AND Ayer, Mass pital five weeks ago last Wednesday and Chapped Lips held at twelve o'clock, and at 7.30 the c. : DOMESTIC FRUITS. V underwent an operation for gravel Tues Mrs. Chas. L. Farnsworth gave some of E. meeting.; The morning service will be AXD her friends a very delightfnl whist party day of tiie following week and was again omitted, on accoant of the nnion meeting WE kEEiP CONSTANTLY ON HAND at her home at Oakwood, Saturday af ter- CUSTOM WORK, PJRESSING, RE operated upon last week Thnrsday. He at the Unitarian charch. A LARGE ASSORTMEN T OF Roughened Skin noon,'Jday 16. After the games refresh PAIRING OF ALL KINDS DONE died last Saturday morning.: He was a James Riley of Lowell, who has worked •CONFECTIONERY, CIGARS. TO- ments were Sefved by the hostess.' All PfttCKSRKASOKABLE. CIVEMBACALL • native of Shirley and has been a retident for several years in town, is working this iBACCO AND PIPES. . ;^ the flayers received souvenirs, many of • . Ati, WoRjc PROMPTLY DONK of jinenburg for the past two_years, lit- season with Herman Skillings. - Brown's Drug ^;?:| ing on a farm he purchased. He was fif them very dainty gifts, the'work of Mrs. Famsworth's own: hand. Those present Fred Bikiley, formierly a resident here, •VrOTICK-Unclalmed Cattle. The Cattle ty^ years of age and leaves a wife and JN <» the Patch Farm, conslrtlngof IHol- were: .-.,• •• '' -- .'\ ndw living in northern Vermont, was in ; mother, Mrs.. Sarsh A, Mills, a resident of Q^.S. Pouiius &,Co. itein Cbw, 1 Bed Cow and 5 two-yeap.«Id •, • Store -l^^'^ Mmes. F.W. Moses, F. T. Moses,~J.'W. town last waek ealliog on'hisold acqnaint- HeUert, beia* unclaimed. If no owner' of . Us town. - „ , , , Bulkeley, F. S. Bolkeley, J.W. Kittredge, ,,.;;?• lilEAiP'SBLdCK, AYER. the above (took elaima the same and pay* aU . The funeral WM Wednesday aftemoo», K|ain st; Ayer. UasdlfSi W. M. Cowles. 0. E. Sherwin, 0. .A. Fox, A. Mfi. S. N. Lougee I and granddaughter, charge*; the eaUle will be sold, to pay ex May 20, and burial was in the family Ipt, H. Phelps, S. H. Farnsworth, &, C.Maynard, flSTRBSS j. J. FALLON on Ceatnl pense*, at PabUe Anetlon. after three iatot- QTBATBD^A XallMe Klttes wftii MisaAmyi Longee, are visiting relatives Shirley Ctotre cemetery. Mr. Mills wss • A. E. Lawrenes, P. N. Lawrence, C. H. Kin i^noff, Ayer, will uke Boarder* or UMU of Ihe notice. 0. H. Waitt aetbijtfor O hrMi«tM •^>f.~ '#.5r^' Jig?:/.; ^^ ,' jt 'j\h .t^i:^^ iZ^-A^, ..^•5 .'-.k ""WIWWW . :,•.,-.;•>»'•>.<,. • \ y^' V;5 ocr.'! ot their congrcgatlous as they met nsed to knoel, by. tho sickbed and usk MANTLE OF ELIJAH. them by the wayside. God's blessing upon that'Invalid? Iu . ; W. A. p. BlRDv ; IHB KBOBO IN AFKICA. Who shall flu the places of these this age of medical speelallstJ, will you men? Is the call for old .fashioned become the uoblest ot .all spechillsts, a a» Does Very Well There, li an Efflc Rev. Dr, Talmage Explains Its Christian pastors to fall upou unheed medical missionary for Christ? -AYho Carriage.Sleigh lent Planter and Miner./ ing ears? You tell me that the greatest Falling Upon Ellsiia. among the youug men lu our medical ,AKD : "I am very much Interested In the i.ioed ot the ehurch of God Is for great [Original.] schools will take up the fallen mantle education of the,negro. In' tho col preacher.s aud not for grent pastors. Now that the wild game Is disappear of the old fashioned Christian famll;. Sign Painting ony '' which I am the Qovornor, vre How/ Chrlatiana of Today May Take I think not, my brother. There may be doctor? Will you, young mau? Wlil ing, especially from the eastern states, I h^ve a population ot ^S.OOO.OOO ne need for great preachers. , 'I'here can Up the Work of Thoje Gone Be you, youug woman? . '" '' ind multimillionaires, are fencing Ip groes and 1,500 white people, 500 not be too many George Whltetlelds In First Class Work PromDtly fore—The Dutiea of the thousand's of acres we are gettliig pre of whom are'cfflclals, and the rest the world, but 1 believe there Is just ns Having sought successors to the old Present Generation. serves sucb OS tbey have in England. Done at Reasonable Prices merchants and people connected great If not greater need for the Chris fashioned Christian pastors and the with and Interested In the mining tian pastor's handshake as there Is old fashioned Christian-doctors, shall There are a number ot these estates in NEW SHOP, CENTRAL AVENUE, tCopyright, 1908, by t«ul» Klopsch.] .Industries," said Sir John Rodger, for the pulpit king's eloquent periods. we uot lovingly speak about the fallen New Hampshire, where nil kinds of AYER, MASS. Governor of the Gold Coast, West NEW YORK, March 22.—That each ot More ueed Is there for the loving min mantles ot the old fashioned Chrlsthin game are preserved, from a pheasant to Residence, Park St. P. O. Box 127 Africa. "It seems to mo that our OS In his own sphere owes to the world ister wlw will atfectlonately throw his lawyers? The Christian lawyers both a deer. A gentleman wbom we sball negro problem is of a less compli the duty of carrying out the great arm about a wayward brother's neck lu the present uud In the past have 'oo call Keltb owns ono of them, thougb be E. D. HOWE, D. D. S. cated nature than that of the United plans and purposes ot the noble luiuds Lhan for the graceful gesture of the De- often been sneered atand jeered at Is a very busy man and seldom goes States. I dont kno-.y v/hether tho that are gone Is the theme ot this ser niostheiioiiii pulpiteer. More need is with words ot contempt. Wheu Jto'ue there. Tom Dealy Is the gamekeeper, (act that the Gold Coast negro is a mon, the text for which Is II Kings 11, th'.'ie for a noble pastor's sympathetic was overthrown by the barbarlou cO,u- and Tom has a son Blcbard. commonly Dental full blood, no mixture with - white 14, "Aud he took up the muutle ot [iriiyer by the sickbed than for a pulpit ijuerors the latter flung all'the Ito'ui'in called Dickey, seven years old. Tbere blood, has anything to do with it or Elijah." " . •jiator who can deliver a classic eulogy lawyers luto jail; then tbey cut out (he Rooms not Tho full blood negro seems to by the bier of a dead president. More tongues of some and sewed up the Is lots of honesty in childhood, and it "TKLEPHONE EXCHAKOE BLOCK be more amenable,' more simple We naturally grieve when a young need is there for a lovlug ministerial mouths of others aud sent them forth usually stamps Itself on childish faces. EAST PEPPERELL, MASS. minded, possibly, and is therefore man of brilliant promise dies. There fiieiul thau for oue who Is trying to Into the world with this fiendish co;u- Any one looking into Dickey's honest more apt to follow the Instructions are sti few young men capable of lin Imild up his church through the liiflu- ment: "Xow we have drawn the adder's countenance would Intrust him with of hic white teacher. We have made ing; the places of.the great men who onoe of Ills Simday servicer alone, and fangs and choked the viper's hiss, and The Ayer Electric Light Co. untold riches. - considerable progress with their ed are passing away we can Ul ufforil to yet. as our cities are growing larger thpy can no longer do us harm." 'I'lna ARC AND INCANDESCENT One afternoon in October Dickey was ucation, which Is naturally of the spare any of them. Wheu that moiit .md larger each year, as the need of some people of tho present generation LIGHTING primary character. We also teach OrllUant youug minister of the lirlck Iiastoral work is becomlug greater and are llivc those ancient barbarians. They out on one of the hills Included In the All applications for sen-Ice will receive the the' to be agriculturists and ar i;ieater. lK?caiisp there Is more danger class all lawyers in one great -group. estate more than a mile ifrom the lodge promptest of attenUon cburch of New York, .Malthle BnbcofU. tisan.:, and they are making wonder of meu and womeu becoming lost In Tlioy call thom vipers nnd dosti^j-eiis. In which be lived. Suddenly b.e beard BATES REASOXABLE. SPEOtAt INDUCE during an attack of delirium resulting ful yrogress In those directions. The the crowds, the fact remains that the husybodles and fomenters of strlte. a shot, and a pheasant fell not a- hun MENTS TO LAROE C0NS17MERS from ^Roman fever committed suicide cocoa plantations are almost entlre- pastoral work of the minister Is be 'Tls true, some lawyers of tbe past in the capital of the Ciiesurs the I'res- dred feet from blm. In another mo !: in the hands of negroes, who cul coming loss and less. Who will make goneratlon may have been bad, yet Office at the Plant Oyterlan general assembly ivas In ses ment a man with gun and game bag tivate them to the highest degree of pastoral vLsitations a life passion? thore have alwa.vs been honest Inwyeis, DISCOUNT sion In Philadelphia. The motlerator advanced from an opening In the trees efficiency; making the article 'the Who will say. "Lord, make me a hunt and have w-p not a right to desire a ALLOWED ON METERED BILL3 PAID BE •announced the sad news. A hush fell and was about to pick up the* bird greatest and most Irnportant item of er for suiglo souls during the week and succession of thom—men who will FORE THE TENTH OF EACH MONTH , over that great assembly. It was al export of the colony. Gold mining not simply a great preacher ou the worthll.v wear tho mantle of the old when he was arrested by a "Hi, there!" NO DISCOUNT ALLOWED AFTER is mother great industry of the col most consternation. Gray haired min Lord's day?" Young men nbout to fashioned Christian law.ver as well'as Looking up, he saw Dickey. The THE TENTH on; . In this work the negro also is isters looked at one another lu sor leave our theological seminaries, will mon to don the honored robes of the sun shone full In his face. His hat dolnt, the work. He Is Invaluable rowful amazement. They had e.tpocted you pick up this mantle which some old fashioned Christian doctors and was thrown back, permitting the red A Nice Assortment of in the mines. this youug pulpit genius to take up the old fashioned pastor has dropped at the Christian mhilsters? autumn rays to fall full,on the boy's work and lead their church when their Ipiiuk of the grave? face, which expressed disapprobation. hands became too feeble to hold tin- Who was the chief hope of the otd Democrat The man paused and, resting the butt standard. That he should be t.-ikc;i lie As we see the Individual work of the grandfather Iu a time of great family Banana Tree a Wonderful. Thing. Coie them caused a sense of de.-;i)hniii . iiilnistors for Individual souls being trouble? The family Iawy(>r. You ot his gun on the ground, regarded "The banana furnishes us with think of the old man's son as an hon- Wagons more acute than would have been ii:".;!octod on account of the con.iii'sting Dickey curiously. in,:, with handkerchiefs, with wiax, 111' largo numbor.s' ot people in our 'or.-iblo man. He was after he married "Well, w-hat Is It?" Concord with blacking, with excelsior, with caused by the doatli of au oldi^r iiiuii. and settl(>d down. Whon ho died ho Maltble Babcock went as Arthur lU'ii- towns and cities, so we find tlio inonil "Let that pheasant alone. It doesn't oil, v.ith flour, with window cord, ;i!id tbe siiiritnal work of the old fnsli- v.-as ros|ioot(>d b.v the communlfy in Buggies and with hrishes." -y Hallam weut aud the young wliich lie lived. Ho was loved l)y belong to you. It is the property ot Cphraim Ellsworth went aud the yoimj; ioiioil (.'hristlan doctors is also passing Mr. Keith, who owns this place." Tae speaker, a banan:> planter, av.-.-iy. The niodoin physician is as o\cry ono. Hut if I should go back In noet RlJhard Kirk White went and tlio the family liistory 1 could find a time "What right has Mr. Keith to it more from Jamaica, paused and smiled. ~ . unlike his predecessor of the past goii- Carriages, You don't believe me. do you?" rouug Dr. .losoph Warivn went .-ind whon ho was not what he was when than I?" i'latioti as tho work of the averago city h- said. "Yet, truly, the banana Jeau Uegnault, the brilliant youu^' art luinisfor is (lilVoi-ont from the old f;ish- you kiK^w him. Once as a young man "Ho bought It with money." ist, went. So the sharp scythe of death lie was led info an awful temptation. tree Is a wonderful thing. Every ioned country iiastor who used to move "How did he get the money?" Butcher part of it serves somo good use. Thus y 's continually mowing down.some ol' 111 and out aiiioiig his people in tlie Ho would have boon sent to the penl- "Made It" tontlary had his crime been dealt with the long leaves make a flnp excelsior. llio brightest and the most proinisin;? •Jiiiall villagos Avliore our grandniotliei's "Honestly? Are you sure he didn't 3f young artists and physicians and in tlie courts. But that ChrlstiauJaw- The juice bein^' rich In tannin. £ur- ;!!!d giandfatliofs wore born. rob the people—freeze out a lot of stock Carts nl.shes a good Indelible Ink and a lawyers, and ministers. \ye cannot ex .vor went to the dlstrU-t attorney and There are many re.'isons for this pli>adcd with him for merc.v. He hlm holders In some of his numerous fcOod shoo polish. ' Ths stems yield a plain their premature departures. We oliaiigo. The electric cars and the ele fine quality of hemp, and from this shall -understand the reason in the no.\t solf signed the bail bond. He himself schemes aud appropriate the properties vated trains and the suburban rail- went to the judge and had the matter to himself?" hemp there are made lace handker world. loail have made the neighborhood Harnesses li.xed up. You never knew. The-vvorld "I don't know anything about tbat chiefs,, cords, and ropes of all kinds, faiiiil.v physician a relic of the past, H GOOD ASSORTMENT AND AT ma ? and brushes. The oil Is used never knew. Tho old father aud moth- I know that's not your pheasant It's 'llie family physician twenty years or knew-. Tho young man kueiy. The ALL PRICES in g'.lding. Of banana fiour, the Mgo always had his oHice lu his home. bis, and you let It alone." (•liristlau lawyer knew. Who wjis It CALL AND SEE THEM flour ground from- the dried fruit, One generation passes away and an Ho never thought of having au ollice "Mayn't I as well have It as to per there i:: no use speaking—-you are other comes. It is ditficult to realize whon the young girl weut astray per- ilowntown In some big office building. snadod her parents to take her back mit it to rot where it Is?" too familiar with it. that Jn another fifty years at most the as the physicians do now. The resnlt "No. It-s^on't rot I'll take care of nork now being done iu the world of and restore her to the fireside of a Carriage Repairing in All "Run down to Jamaica this win was the old fainily doctor, because he 1)1110 home? Who was It when .vour it" religion, of letters, of medicine and of ter," ho concluded. "You couldn't was a iioighboihood doctor, becanie a father in anger wanted to disinherit "'What'll you do -(vlth it—take It home art will be in the hands of new men. personal adjunct of ever.v family, llo Its Branches Promptly have a finer winter trip. Bathe In you on account of your escapades per for supper?" the sea on Christmas Day, and buy. Ihere will be new men not only among had his iiatients" Indlviilual interests suaded him to let bygones be b.vgones fhe leaders, but among the ordinary at heart. The boys and the girls of tho "No. I'll take It to my father. He's Done If yo-j are wise, a small banana plan and let the children share and share fhe keeper. He'll turn it lu to Mr. workers, nnd It Is just as essential to sti'oot were his boys and girls. Thoy ALSO, HORSESHOEING AND GEN tation, for there is one other thing alike? It was the Christiau hnvyor Keith." that the banana~ yields, and that is the world's progress that these hum wore al! his children. who did all those things. Oh. the In- ERAL BLACKSMITHING "How win I know that it reaches —wealth."—Philadelphia Bulletin. ble men should be found faithful as .Not ouly has the old fashioned linito infiuence for good of the old Mr. Keith r- thnt the leaders should be meu of gen noigliborhood iiliysician passed away fashioned Christian lawyorl Is there "You have my word for It" Frederick Whitney Attacked Him as a Bear. ius. Our concern is uot ouly that the thvon:;li the introiluctioii of tlio tolo .-usy young man willing to take up the "How do I know your father won't ,onsi)icuous pulpits of the churcli plioiic and the oloctric <'ars ami tlu' falh'ii , mantle of tho old fashioned keep It for himself?" AYER, MASS Hugh Tighe ot Hennessey, Okla., ;lowiitown othcos. hut also bocanso of should be ably filled, but with the Christian iaw-yers who worked, for "Because it's his business to see that was bitten by a dog. Without saying tho spooializiiig of tho dilTerent dopart- ••haracter of the men who will be call- Christ and wlio did just as valiant all game here Is turned In." anything about Hugh's name the in inortls of niodioiiio ami surgery. Onco 3d to the thousauds of ordinary pulpits service for thoir Divine Master as did "That seems to you a good reason, cident does not lose interest with this yon felt that tho family ip|iysi<-i:ni thoir contomporarii's. the Christinn doc FLOWERS explanation In the Press Democrat: scattered over the broad land iu which but because a man Is employed to see laliant service for the Master's kiiiR- know a groat do;il. but now you liavo tor and the gosiicl niinister? For Every Occasion "The boy was clad in a rod bearskin loino to the (•oiielii.sion tlmt one phy that his employer gets his own he Jom Is now being done. AVhere there doesn't al'n-ays do it However, you cloth cap, cloak and leggings, and sician can know bnt very littlo. If DESIGNS A SPECIALTY it is probable that the d?B did uot Is one chief justice's seat iu the su- Will .vou, as future lawyers, try to look and talk like an honest boy. If you havo anytliing tiio iiiattor witli save inou instead of for mercenary re HARDY ORNAMENTAL recognize that he was a child, and ireme court of the Uuited States that yo'iir o.vo yon must go to an oculist: oi' you'll give me your word ot honor to wards or" for faino frying to destro.v take the pheasant yourself to Mr. Keith PLANTS, TREES, SHRUBS made the attack with the above re will need au occupant there are thou with the throat, to a throat specialist; sults." sands and tens of thousands of oidi- mon? Will you be like the .great ami we'll say no more about it" ALL ORDEnS GtVEN PROMPT ATTENTION or witii the lungs, to a lung specialist: good .Judge Nye. who was many years uary lawyers and justices who ni-e or with tho skin, to a skin specialist: "Course 1 will." true to their profession and are seeiiii; ago aiipointed one of the judges of tho The man shouldered his gun and "Those Little Ones.' or with tho iiorvos. to :i nerve special New Vork bench? One day a young that might is not triumphing over walked away, leaving the pheasant H. HUEBNER Thousands of pound:, are spent ist. Wo liave mado a fad out of this lio.v was brought before hini for steil where It lay. Dickey advanced, picked GROTON, MASS. every year on gluttoi.y and wine bil)- . '•Ight And where there have l«'eii in sjiocialist linsinoss. Thus, instead of ing. Ho iiKpiirod into the case, and he ^his generation a Dr. Rush and a Dr. Imla.v having ono doctor whom wo <-alI up the pheasant and, carrying It by the blus at city banquets, but not a pen fouml tliat tho boy had forniorl.v lioi-n legs, started off In a difterent direction Greenhouse near Groton School. ny ust be spent on the starving Sayre and a Marion Sims and a I'as- a family doctor, most families have ;in honest boy, but his motlior \va> Telephone Connection. teur and a Loreuz, who. as great sur four or Hve doctors on thoir payrolls. from that taken by the poacher. When child. The Moderates wasted £10,- starving, and ho stole iirc^ad for hor to be reached home supper -was ready, 000 On flagstafts to satisfy their own geons and physicians, have been hon The.v have one doctor for the babies oat. .Judge Nye sent for the ilistri •> but as soon as It was over he took up C.W. GREEN hunger. It would cost only £14,000 ored all around the world for their and another for the father and anothor attorney and said: "This boy has suf doctor for the motliei- and another doc tbe pheasant and started for the resi pounds to feed 6,000 nuugry children. brilliant work in the medical profes fered enough. Vou must not iiro^o dence of its owner. At the door he Bu, t'ags aro more than flesh and em sion, there have ))een thousands and tor for the sister. The resuit is. in cute him." But the district attoino; PIANO TUNER stead of a pliysician being a neighbor- handed It to the butler, giving him an LITTLETON, MASS pire dearer than blood.—London hundreds of thousands of ordinary, lit said: "I will prosecute him. Lot lii- account ot its killing, and was about to Star. liood doctor and being part of that lawyer save him if he can." Then tle known phj-sicians who as humble noisliliorhood. he is bnt one In a pro turn away when the butler told him to Twenty-five Year's Experience. Tele famllj- doctors have cared for the sick .Judge Nye said: "I will appoint hi? come in. Dickey, still carrying the phone Connection cession. His iiationts come to hini ono Record for Punctuality. and have come to our bedsides to alio coim.- i.-^ f,A T X ;;,: Vft?';" V • •iN: /-i^vr '>^^ vH.: ffy>vfl":iNG OfiCHAR^^, ECONOMIC MiZAT. r»> I WiaiAM^E. WHEELEiit- THE FINGER NAILS. PBESENOB OP MIKD. " ' Poor OKfia.rd p«rmes irom-Neplfct at -A Useful Little Talk With an Exptrt tne fUart. on the Subject. IIow Ther Mny B« Manlcared Sne- Story by Eugene Clowto* of'the 8nd« , The meat supply Is ever anhiipor- - •»•»£oily at H(>ine, den Freezing of Water. An orchartt neelectej Kiille yo'"«g tant item witb the housewife and the l-'or the voman and mnn who deshre When Eugene Cowles was a boy la will,-at Its best, lie only » sec.««A-clasB best, cuts may bo provided reasonably :. i^iauicure their own nails all that is Chicago, he used to act In amateur orchard. To get the >oung drcfcfl.T'i U Btlfflclcnt thought Is accorded' the . Me-d ure a nail file, an orange wood started right Is Important,' .Tftt av- theatricals, and be tells a goodjstory •ubject. ..tk nnd a set of nail em,erle8i which erage man Justly feels that he mast of one of his young friends who ap FATTENING FOWLS. .., ^e bought by the half dozen or by economize In starting'the yoiins or , An authority on .home dressed meats peared with him. "His name was :'. t hox. Some nail salve, pink nail chard, and too often economy" leads to aayai Littlehalo," says Cowles, "and In one Provide the Right. Conditions to'Get icr for polish and a piece of cham- neglect.. Though the process of reai- of our shows he had to plunge into a Good Results. "Considering a small family. partial . Icin are also necessary. ing the orchard to a productive stage river, pursued by a wild beast Tho General Biacksmithing. '- -to beef, choice cuts may be managed ibe art of manicuring is uot hard to is an expensive' one, it is worth doing river was invisible to the audience, In order to fatten poultry at a profit, for several meals by purchaislnga pin :v ,1-11. says the Chicago American. You well. The buying of poor trees, care and we fixed If so that Llttlehale the right facilities must be provided Horseshoeing a Specialty. bone fairly heavy, ^about nine or ten : ..:.'-'t attend to your fingers every day. less pipparatlon of the land for plant should leap, disappear, and strike a and proper, food used. Probably among pounds. The fillet in such a piece . . C-1-; iiever bite your nails. Do not ing, or lack.of care after planting, is ALSO, ALL KINDS OF CARRIAGE mattress in the wings, while a stage the best are fat-meat residues, corn Avelghs easily a pound and Is worth '••.'. the cuticle, for that only makes It poor economy.' The productive and REPAIRING, RUBBER TIRES, hand should drop a big rock In a tub meal, potatoes, rice, cow's . milk and about 75 cents. Aside from that, thero i vow thicker and ugly. profitable old orchard is the one grown PAINTING AND JOBBING Will be the tender end of the pin bone so as to. make a splash., Tho leap oatmeal with milk. If anything, oat. .Mniiicnre the nails in this manner: well while young. PROMPTLY DONE AT NEW SHOP for roasting, and in' it, provided the worked magnificently in fohearsal, meal is preferable because of effect on rii-st dip the hands in a bowl of warm portion Is from good city dressed beef, but, the night, ot tho performance, tha color or fat, says a writer In Success- While raw land is not the most sat ON CENTRAL AVENUE. ::iapy water. Soak them for a few mln- f Ott- have the choicest flavor in the bul stage hand forgot the mat^ss and - fill Farming. . isfactory upon which to set young Phone. 74-3, res. 72-4. AYER, MASS. utis. then wipe them, pushing the cutl- lock. While the tall end Is not quite so the tub.' When Ultlehale Jumped bo The point Is to fatten fowls In the trees, it often seems advisable to set • 'e downward Instead of upward. Take ^ tender. It will keep a'week In cold fell eight feet to.the oaken floor be on f,uch land without previous crop '-.0 little nail emery and carefully file Wm. Crombie weather and can be used advanta neath and the crash was such a tre ping. The matter of breaking the .he nails in curves, not pointed. 'Use geously for pot roast or Irish stew. mendous one t'hat the audience not land In by some previous method of lire scissors only to cut dowji in the knowing the circumstances, began to cropping hardly seems Important MARBLE AND SRANITE "Be careful always to buy well sea cji-ners, ot the nails, but never cut ci laugh.. Llttlehale was equal to thei enough to necessitate the loss ot one Works soned meat, which does*not'mean stale ther tbe curve-of the nail or the cuticle. situation. 'Heavens,' he shouted or,two years'-growth on the young or meat, but meat that has ripened while Push the cuticle down softly witb the from beneath the stage, 'the water's chard. With a little additional care the NEWTON ST., AYER hanging in a perfectly dry compart orange Stick. If any littlo particles ad frozen I"—San Francisco Chronicle, young orchard can be successfully ment until age has made it'tender and AUGUSTUS LOVEJOY here to the nail, wrap a small piece of The Coop. grown on land Its flrst season under sweetened it Seasoned beef is not dis cottou wool upon the orange stick and water. These soils In o-jr arid coun Fire Insurance Agent colored, while mutton does change Its dip it either in lemon juice or a bleach- The Shopkeeping Kaiser. •" j shortest time possible. A good way is tries are,dry and require careful water and Broker appearance while ripening and requires lug fluid and scrape the nail. After fil The Kaiser has been extremely en to confine in coops like the one shown ing. It the raw land must be set, it 42 EAST MAI.V ST., AYER, MASS. froin ten days to two weeks- fbr the ing, scraping and pushing down the cu ergetic in pushing the interests of In cut The open part may be made sliould be carefully prepared before seasoning process. - _ ticle, dip the flngers In the soapy water his Berlin pottery s'hop as commercial of lath or wire netting. Keep pen dark planting. As a rule, the sandier soils Farms and all other risks written in good "A palatable and economical substi ut:.iln. Wipe them dry. traveller. Sometimes ^af court fes except when fowls are eating. Throw strong companies. should be thoroughly watered beforw tute for calf sweetbreads is the sweet .Vow comes the polishing. Put on a tivals, when ie espies A wealthy man- thick covering, old carpet or quilts, an attempt is made to level them. Very breads from the bullock, which may little of.the nail salve and polish each he approaoh-es him fend solicits or over exposed part and the pen will be otter the higher spots settle most, and be purchased for 35 cents per pound, linger separately with the chamois or ders for the Hohenzbllern store. BO dark that "birds'will move . about It these knolls are pulled off betore equaling in qnantity nnd nourishment nail polisher Ifyou have one. Then dip Whtr, the order is given the kaiser, very .little between meals. In tho watering the same, soil must be moved a dollar's worth of calf sweetbreads. in water again. Wipe and put on the ext.-acts a gold pencil from his pocket morning if fed boiled potatoes, crushed back after settling Is complete. Wa STORE There will be no waste in the prepara anu .after the manner of commercial powder and polish again. Be careful while hot and thickened with corn ter should be worked onto These high tion of the beef sweetbreads, but they not to get too high a polish on the nail, travellers Jots down the particulars meal, and a little salt and pepper for I'laces as the flrst step In the prepara require to be thoroughly cooked. for this is vulgar. If the skin around on his snow white cuffs.—London seasoning, chickens will fatten ve y TO tion of the land. Often the land is "Lamb's liver Is also an economical the nails has a yellow appearance, nse "nt-Blts. fast. They should be fed three times thoroughly watered before it Is plowed food and particularly delicious when more of the bleaching fluid. a day, and their bill-of-fare varied r..? When ready for the plow, It should be young and prepared In fairly thick much as possible. Pumpki::s or. worked deeply and thoroughly. Some Patronize The Child. slices. HoTT to Make Cheese Croanettes. squash may take place of boiled pota oven advocate the use of the subsoil "Where a large pot of good stock la It Is startling to realize that the toes occasionally. Fresh bedding rlcw In the space to be occupied bv M1.T together one cupful of grated orgr ism'-of .the child Is physically Have you fixed up that wanted the leg is rather expensive. In breadcrumbs, two cupfuls of grated should be supplied frequently, and thf the tree rows. This could sii'rely do no its place what Is commonly called the and psychically superior to that o^ coop and spot it occupies kept chaii.. harm and may give the roots a better cheese, half a teaspoonful of salt and t>>o adult. Stolidity, strength, and socket bone is particularly useful be n dash of cayeime. Moisten with one chance to penetrate the subsoil. cause the substance of the two bones experience, of course, turn the bal China Closet?. well beaten egg to which have been add ance, but in quality and type, the AUTOMATIC POULTRY 'VATERING. If not, give us a call and select a few with the sweetened meat about them ed two tablespoonfuls of cream; when The next step Is carefully to level child has the advantage, and it is pieces frcm our Imported can be procured for from 20 to 30 cents. thoroughly- blended shape into small the land. The young orchard should- the child-type that should be our System Used by Dr. AA.. H. Phelps The piece will be of generous propor balls, dip in yolk of egg and then- in never be planted on a poorly- leveled Ideal. "Of such,,l' It Was truly said, Japanese tions, and the stock may be utilized crushed cracker crumbs and fry in hot Described. pltce ot land. Leveling after the trees "is the Kingdom of Heaven."—Pre- for soups and consommes from time to fat till a golden brown. Servte on trl- aie set Is unsatisfactory and the or -paratory Schools Review. China time." . iingles of fried hominy with tomato Upon each floor of my poultrj' house chard set on half-leveled land soon sauce. I have a 2.inch iron pipe which passes fliows a lack of uniformity which it re- We can furnish you with Grapes, Or anges, Bananas, Raisins, Mixea Nuts, >; Steer's Strange Death. the whole length of both the i^ain qtiirE-- j-ears to outgrrow. (Jood level- TRAY FOfi ODDS AND ENDS. FigSf Dates, English Walnuts and a Fine Ernest A. Davis of South Montvllle floor and loft from west to east, at the • ins pieatly reduces the labor of water How to Frame Flctttres. Line ot Quality Chocolate, Canned Plums, Provided With Compartments For'Ar recently Ib'sty one" of a ifine pair of - latter end projecting outside the build, ing r.r.d the per cent, of trees lost in Colored prints vary their frames with Cherries, Pineapple, Strawberries and Ap ticles of Various Kinds. steers. 'Death was caused by- the ing. This pipe runs along the floor, setting. their subjects, but usually have no passing through each of the warm ricots. One of the many necessities required mats, says Harper's Bazar. Old Eng animal ha-ving swallowed a spiral , roosting rooms, in each of which is a l^and which has been previously We also have the Lawson Pink Brand by the dressmaker and the tailor is a lish hunting scenes, with a preponder spring which was once a part of a o£ Corn and Peas, Beets, Spinach and Li T jointj surmounted by a 1-inch nipple- farmed or cropped is the most satis tray or other article tor holding pins, ance of flashing scarlet, have narrow curtain fixture. The.wir© had work ma Beans, and the Heinz Pickles in bot coupling. On the top of this is factory upon which to set young trees. needles, buttons, hooks and eyes, etc. black frames, Japanese prints either ed through the'stomach and pierced tles and bulk, and last but not least the If the land has been well watered, it A plate or saucer often serves the pur black or brown bamboo with the the heart —Kennebec Journal screwed a cast-Irc(B drinking cup 8 Best Flour ever produced, Inches In diameter and 4 inches deep. i> uniformly moist, will require the pose, with the result that all the ar brown prints. The prints of- old Ma All are set al the same level. minimum amount of water to start the ticles In the dish Intermingle and must donnas bave dull gold frames, while 'Vanishing Diseases. >oung trees, and all danger from fu be fished out when needed. An infinite At the west end the inflow takes Napoleon. engravings and etchings have a mold Typhus fever has practically been ture setting is obviated. However, ly better accessory for the purpose is place through a tank supplied with a ing toning In with the brown or black extinguished In this country, and ls< this land win suffer quicker from over- of the print. Photographs are almost float valve, like that used for flushing v.aterlng than the raw land. The MULLIN BROS., 9 PAGE'S BLOCK, "tending" toward extinction In Ire- a closet. This tank and valve are ad Jnvariably framed close, the frames ian*. Phthisis Is diminishing In .mount of moisture already in the sub- AYER. justed to the same level as the drink matching the darkest tone of the pic Grea» Britain and elsewhere, but W .•r.li retards the recovery from over- ture. The artistic framer stains his ing cups so that when the cups are wateiiDg. Boynton & Parker increasing ia Ireland, coupled with full the float shuts oft the Inflow, and own frames the exact tone required. the relationship of famine to the as the water is used out, it falls just There is one precaution to be takerj The molding must be as simple as pos spread of typhus, give the key to thei enough to allow the cups to refill. in the preparation of all land fcr INSURANCE sible in design. The width is governed problem.—Hospital. again closing when the proper level Iii.-intij.g to .voung trees. The earlic, both by the size of the picture and by tlie detail in the picture. A landscape is reached. In this way the water is il can be done the better. The laaci AGENTS Via Siberia. , OFFICKS or scene containing many small flgures not wasted. At the outflow at the 1 Itjv.-ei! in the late spring takes watc- "Kindly Indorse your enTelope 'Via west end a gate serves to flush o;it too freely and the young trees ofte:! EAST ^'EPPERELL AND GROTON, MASS will admit of a very narrow molding, while a large he^d demands a broad Siberia.' Such Is the request mad« the whole system. Inside of this gate 5-jf!'er from overwaterlng. The uppe: one. No definite rule can be given. by ..eople in the Far East to thelt" l^ait of the soil becomes saturated ' an overflow pipe."'placed at the prop NOTICE Landscapes are sometimes framed with correspondents here, and there is no with water and drives out the ai: Persons desiring theii- lots in Woodlawn er level, easily pre\'ents, the possibility double glass to bring out the perspec doubi. that the trans-Siberian route .ilid smothers the roots of the youn. Cemetery cared for.sraded or watered, applv of the cups overflowing and thereby to C. W. SCRUTOX. Pleasant .St., Aver, Mas.s. tive. has proved most regular and satlB-> . flooding the floors. The 2-inch pipe trces. To avoid this difflculty the land P. O. Box 2ft^. ' :J;! factory since it got into proper work-* is of that size to render clogging im should be prepared early and thor How to Mnke Bny Rnm. Ing order.—Syren. possible. A pipe from the hot water oughly worked down or settled with U. H. BARROWS, Bay rum may be made as follows: heater in the brooder cellar is con fvequent winter and early spring culti Oil of bay (from myrica ncris), 240 Japan's Mining Production.' nected with the inflow pipe, making vations. This is especially necessai; PAINTER. grains; oil of orange (bigarde), sixteen it possible to supply hot water to the In the case of alfalfa land which Is to \u First-cla.ss work in all branches of Japan's mining production last) grains; oil of pimento, sixteen grains; system.—Orange Judd Farmer. ;l.-inted to young trees. The disc hay HOUSE PAINTING, GLAZING AND year, according to returns from thd alcohol, one quart; water, twenty-five row and smoothing harrow are sat;'- PAPER HANGING. Japanese Department bf Agrlcnitura Shop, Central Avenue, iicir Columbia Street. fluid ounces. Dissolve the oils In the and Commerce, amountea'to |62,- 'actory tools for this work.—O. r SCRATCHINGS. P. 0. Box 31. ,\YER. MASS. alcohol and add the water. Stir Into 130,884. In 1886 the correspondlnff V\'hipple. FOB HOIiDINO PINS. tho liquid about two ounces of precipi value -was $5,000,0000. The value) tated phosphate of lime and filter. It Is It the business hen this year, or Union Cash the tray shown In the accompanying Il • Japan's mining output is trebllngi Cleansing Bark of Fruit Trees. will improve with age. only a boarder? lustration. It is made ot pressed glass every decade. Si-ery tree In the orchard shoiiJ.i The farmer who raises poultry can and contains partitions which divide 11 he washed at least twice a ye.-i- Market always obtain ready money. Into four compartments adapted for ar- How to Keep Cheeses. Soatbcm Chivalry. wlth strong soapsuds, but there wiji Edam cheese is best kept on a cool, A chick that Is continually chllUd AYER tides of various kinds. Only one par Thomas Nelson Page, the, llterarji seldom amounts to much, because % I- be no necessity for scraping them, dry shelf. If one has a buffet In the tition can be tatroduced, increasing the Virginian, always addresses the PresJ tallty is used up' to resist and over says the Agrlcultdral Epitomlst. Thr kltcben it will keep fresh for some The following is a partial list and the size of the compartments. The latter ident as "his excellency." This terot come abuse. caterpillars should be destroyed a = time If placed thereon. Cheese dishes prices: provides a convenient means df sepa. is rarely used fit the White Housel It is not a good plan to feed grown soon as the nests are seen, which wn; with glass or porcelain tops are apt to rating the pins and buttons so that oflices, except when a foreigner or a up fowls too much soft food, as It end, large numbers with amazin? BEST SIRLOIN STEAK, '27,0. lb. cause Edam cheese to sweat Roque they can be Instantly procured when Southerner, tenacious of the old Idea/ \^ tends to make them dyspeptic. rapidity; the escape of a single pair ROAST PORK, 12c. lb. fort cheese may be kept out of the win desired. calls to see Mr. Roosevelt In estimating the cost of keeping means thousands next season. One FAT SALT PORK, He. lb., 10 lbs., SI. dow or in a cool closet in a 'jar, but of the best assistants to an orchard should first be wrapped in paper tin poultrj- It Is best to allow one bushel PORK- BUTTS, 12c. Ib. Club Ignorant of American History. is the little wren. If farmers wii; foil. Camembert Gorgonzola and Brie Roses Made of Butter.'- of grain a year to each laying hen. 5 lb. PAIL PURE LARD, 55c. On hearing mnch praise of culture give him proper protection by con should be treated in the same way, bnt A basket of roseS, made compIetel]i| With hens It Is much better to keep classes from a Fifth avenue (New York) structing boxes with entrances so 10 lb. PAIL PURE LARP, Sl.IO. must be brought in some time before of butter, basket and all, Is being .an the appetite sharp compelling thern woman at a luncheon, a sarcastic slater small that no bird but a wren can 20 Ib. TUB PURE LARD, 82.10, they are to be used,,as the cold air will hibited throngh England by tbd Gov;* to be active and search for food. asked if It would not be proper to In. enter, the sparrow will be unable to 50 lb. TUB PURE LARD, 10c. lb. make them too dry to serve Immediate ernme&v of Victbrls, one of the Stated Pick ail small, slow going, indiffer elude American history in tho list of drive It away. As the wren' is a:) ly. American cheese should be wrap in Australia' to remind the inothei) ent appearing pullets and save them FRESH PORK SHOULDERS, 10c. lb. subjects. "Recently I attended a his. active and busy creature It destroy? ped In several thicknesses of paper and eountry of her Vreait dgricuItnrBl y- for broilers. Keep for maturity only SQUIRE'S BEST HAMS, r2c. tory class in a woman's club," said she. a large number of Insects every da.v. kept on the lower shelf la the refrig wealth. •• Z-'. the best of the" whole lot of pullets. GOOD ROAST BEEF, l2c. a Ib. "Twenty members were there. The and as it increases rapidly und=' erator or In the fresh air food chest • ^'4 Experiments show that the yearling ALL KINDS OF BEST IMPORTED lecturer nsked a few questions—for In. favorable circumstances, quite n Cnba Railroad Elamlng^ hen lays 40 per cent, more eggs than large number of them may be securojl stance: Who wns the first president of .MACARONI, 10c. per lb. How to Clean Bird Caares. the hen two years old. .? ' L'-;?.'' ii-Ar-:^ /-- •i^- f'^ry. y fX nrBtXSHBl> XVKST SATURSAT BT JOBK of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Bruce, Harry CoUyer, the wellJcaown bowler, H. TTTBRES, AYER, MASS convalescing from an attack of scarlet distinguished Iiimself in tite art last week How to KoU'XmvklBS. VANDALISM iU LOUVRE. fever. at the local alleys In a coatinuons three- To fold a dinner napkin iron it all Miss Marion Kellogg of West Swanzey, string roll, making a total of 366, scoring over on the rig^t side, having first Because of the Oettructlen of Paint and Miss Kate Wesl^ of ^.tawan, N. 180 on the first.strine,,114 ou the second pressed the Initial or monogram over Ino* They Are tOx,Be Incased. , . wiLiDmEHii YOUR in. Y., were recent gnests of Miss Alice Sea-r and 121 on the third; This score comes a padded sort ace. Fold IQ tialves with I .Subscribers>ire Urged to Keep ver, • very close to the hi^est'record apd has the wrong side ont; now ttirji one hem • Another act. Of ; vandalism at the , Their Subscriptions BIrs. Naomi Wilder of Joslynville is created widespread attentitm among the back to tbe middle told, which brings Louvre has , been committed. Jtia' In Advance. bowling fraternity itt all tiie stinounding tbe right side to Tlew; then turn'the lin •- before the museum closed for the daj spending a week witb relatives in Ashby. towns. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Lawrence observed en over and bring the other hem to the a: .girl jtbolc' frbm her pocket a,pair oi One Dollar and Fifty Cents a. Year. The directors of the Shiriey Cooperative fold. 'You now have on one,long side scissori and deliberately lacerated In. TO AiOVAKCE PA-nKO SUBSCBIB'KBS ONE the 6ftieth anniversary of tb^ marriage at theur home on £im-st. last 'Wednesday. bank held a business meeting on Tuesday two folds and on the otber edge one ^rea' fine pictajre of the Slstlne chap, DOLLAB. evening in their rooms in Peasle/a block. fold and two hems. Fold again In the No special celebration marked the day, el, piercing the eyes of the pope.and I••t U but they received the congratnhuiobs of Geo^e Buxton hss puroliased the San middle, then tnm one end under and three cardinals. - -• - Wo Publish the Following Papers : their relatives, friends and neighbors, ford White farm at Woods Village and the other ^over on top, and the napkin A guardian, who was a -witness, oi, Turner's Public Spirit, Ayer, many of whom called during the .day. has located there, moving his famuy and win lie flat, with all hems and folds the act, arrested the girl, who stated The Groton, Landmark, The. Memorial day services will be ob household goods the latter part of last even. If a large napkin is folded in that she dlsiagured the picture thai served on Saturday morning and all those week. the cozmnon -way the thickness of the she might be taken Into custody. • The Westford Wardsman, barmg flowers they wish to contribute The Shirley and Ayer baseball teams Unen at tbe folds -will draw the edges Notice This Is. the third outrage of the The Littleton Guidon, towards decorating, the graves wUl leave played a good game on the Shirley grounds back ahd make them uneven. Ultui- kind committed In the'Louvre withia them at engine hall as rarly as possible on last Saturday afternoon, with Shirley tbe trate. with a square of paper, If neces The Harvard Hillside, I HAVE BOtlCiaT THB two months, and it is felt that It the Saturday morning. winners by a score of 7 to 8. ' sary, to teach the trick of folding the priceless - collections - there are to be ' The Pepperell Clarion, linen to secure smoothness. - Mrs. Coi^ Marr and little daughter from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tomkinsonand lit Ayer Branch adequately- safeguarded radlt^-' re tle daughter of Chelsea were Visitors first The Shirley Oracle, Fitchburg are' guests at the home of her OF THE forms must be Introduced in the aur-' mother,-Mrs. Elbridge Hapgood. of the week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bow to Bijske I>7«»eptle'a Paddlas. veillahce of the galleries and theli Tiie Townsend Tocsin, John Will. The Brookline Beacon. , Mrs. John Colon and danghter Hilda Boll a cupful of rice until It Is soft; Forest Hooper Cto. contents.. , , , . .,' are at the home of Mrs. Kate Nutting of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert V."l Martin of then take two eggs, a cuptol of ^snigar AND WILL- CABBY ON THE BUSINESS AS As a result, it has been decided that SATCTRDAT, MAY 23, 1908. Bayberry Hill for the snmmer. Connecticut are visiting Mrfand Mrs. and one of :naik„stlr together "and add BEFORE AT THE certain pieces .of eciilpture—notably The Misses Grace and Mabel Thompson Wm. McClellan, parents of Mrs. Martin. to the-rice. , Pare six cooUng apples, tne famous .Tonus of MUor-are to bo TO"WNSEND. of Providence, B. I., axo at home for a Mr. and Mrs. Birding and. daughter slice and place in bottom' of podding Old Stand the object of special protection. Glass vacation, arriving Wednesday afternoon. Louise of Everett are 'visiting her ilster, dish and ponr the rice ctistard over is to be placed In froiit of several . - CsNTREw^The ,program for Memorial Mrs. Will Love and family. - . tbem. Bake in a „moderata oven long chefs d'oeuvre of painting,- and. In ad ' day: in the.morning the O.A.B., asdsted DEATH.—The many friends of Ret. B, Miss Ada Matthewson of Boston is vis enongh to cook the apples. To be eaten Chas E. Perrin dition to an Increase in the niimbOr of br the Memorial association and Sons of F. KeUogg of-West Swanzey,-N. H., a iting Miss Gertrude McNally of Harvard warm either with or without cream. Tel. 96-4 WEST. ST.., AYER guardians, fifty plain clothes police Veterani, will,go to West Townsend oh former resident of the town and for three road.- men-are to-be added to the state.— : the 9.45 train and decorate the graves of years the pastor of the Baptist church, Rev. A. A. Bronsdon wiH preach at the How' to Drr the VmbreUa. S. LeRoy Longley Modem Society. ' • , , the comrades there, returning at twelve were shocked to read in the Saturday pa Congregational church Sunday morning at To preserve an umbrella so that it - andbavingdu^eratMemorialtaail. They pers of his sudden death from pneumonia, 10.45. C.E. meeting in the vestry at seven will last long enough and . not look Socialism In Hungary. ' will be accoinpanied by the Townsend aftar,only:two days illness.. -Mr. Kellogg .m, subject, " Christian growth; how to shabby It should be carefully dried j—iRea. l ,Estat e and was ordained in this church twenty-four In,Hungary a noticeable factor, band. The cpekker of the afternoon will f elp and how to hinder." Mrs. Alice L. each time It Is carried in the rain. To 4^ ] Pe 1 PI S U Tr^ D OP ,bc Col. £dw«r4 Anderson of Quincy, who years ago, and married Miss Lizzie Man Wright wiU lead. writes our Budapest correspondent, ia ning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles do this It should never be stood on tbe will deliver an address in Memorial hall point, thus permitting tbe water to MHO enormous influence tnat Ger at't«b'p.m^ followed by the usual services Manning of this village, and after his pas _ite?; Arther J. Covell, pastor of the RoUstone Congregational charch of Fitch- trickle dowii, spoiling the silk and mak EIGHT Ijr THE CENTER of Grand Old many, Italy and England wield. Kv-,^ .of decorating the comardes graves. In torate here ceased he was a frequent visit Town, Charming locality, 65 acres of land, ery work ot value dealing witb the.' the evening a concert will be given in the or to the home here, and leaves many l>nri»jTRi" address the Men's club in the ing the -wires nsty. Neither shotild an highly fanproved; will now cut 40 tons of warm friends who mourn hia loss. Hu vestiytptthe Congregational cburch, Tues umbrella be opened to dry, for in' this hay; large woodlot; some timber. Two-story diverse forms of Socialism has been hall by Temple quartet. translated and scattered broadcast in 11- age was fifty-two years, and the only sur day, eveining, May 26, on the subject, way the silk Is stretched, and later It house, 0 rooms; tlie house Is very convenient On Friday afternoon there will be spe "Euivpeans and- Americans; -similarity becomes baggy, and It Is impossible to ly arranged and the rooms are very pleasant all disaffected and discontented areas. viving member of the family is a young and sunny. Large stable adjacent, which Is cial Memorial services by the pnblic schools daughter, Miss Marion, who has the sym snd differences." The club extends a cor furl It smoothly. The correct way to Fines and impriaoiiment incroaae, but' in Memorial haU,; and after the exercises also very well arranged and In good repair. pathy of the community in her bereave dial invitaUon to the ladies and the public dry an umbrella Is to shake It well to Many maple trees along the street; among the literature of social democracy is they will be addressed by visiting members ment. EKs body was brought to the Ceiitre in general to attend and enjoy this inter other desirable estates. A good place for the flooding village, hamlet and to'wn b£ Uie 6.A.B. , get as mndi water out as possible and for burial in the family lot Monday after- esting address. then stand it on its handle to drain. man who wants to make a business of farm with new ideas and providing new The Union Memorial service will be held ing, or would make a very attractive summer E. H. Allen -will,spend Snnday with his home,, Price $3500. • forces;' Certainly one of the best in Memorial b&il Sunday evening at seven, wife at South Newcastle, Me, and both .How to Clean PaJnt Bnuliea. -. S'o.2. HERE 18 THE PLACE for the equipped printing establishments ,1- , in which all the churches will participate. HiLt.—Mrs. Lena Clark of Fall River will return home first Ot the week. "' man who Islooking for a pleasant home wd have ever seen outeide England Is and son Earl are, stopping at Mountain To clean paint brushes first' soak the an ideal spot for raising poultry and small The' speaker of the evening will be Ret. The ladies of the Baptist church will that of the Socialists in Budapest. It John H. Cox of West .Townsend Baptist View farm'on the hill. bmsbes In turpentine and afterward fruits. The house Is'sin old style cottage, but give a salad sapper.and entertainment at wash In soapy water la which 'a .little it is in very good -repair and has five pleasant is-an enormous place. It represents - church, and special music will be furnish Morton Campbell has closed his school the church, Wednesd^ evening,' May 27. sunny rooms, good bam and shop buildiog, ed by the Congregational church choir. soda Is dissolved. For brashes that money and It makes money, and m..n- • yy N • in Maine. '•.. Supper will be served from 6;30 to eight, U acres of land, plenty ot wood,-' and timber «y means organization, and from thh» have been used for varnish nse spirits enough to keep buildings in repair; finevrell All those who have flowers they desire Mr. and Mrs. - Carl Burrell and little and will be followed by an enterfeinmeiit, of wine or methylated spirit instead of flows pOwer.^Pall Mall Gazette. to contribute for Memorial day services' water. This is located about £ mile from' cen daughter Margaret are passing their va coMistingof piano duets and a dialogue turpentine. • - ' • ter of town, store, churches and postoffice. will please leave them at Memorial hall as cation at Warren Truell's. by local.talent, entitled " No cure, no pay;" Umlles to steam and electric cars. Icansell early as-possible on Satmiday morning, _ A. D. Barber has moved from Reed's The president of the C.E.8., Mrs. Bessie Since the United Stetes government be- this place for $900. The man who is lookhtg LittI Man, Big Had. -where they-idll- be distributed under the Ferry onto his farm and is making exten Collyer, led the meeting at the Congrega an to patronize expositions, down to'the for a Snugllttle farm for a little money will ' John- O. Archeboid, the other. JFohn ' directipn of». of v. sive repairs. amestown fair. Congress has appropriat-. bivcstteate this.' • tional church-last Suntoy evening. ;T'he f Ko.3. •WE PDT IX some persoJial prop D. of the Standard oil Company, md On-Thursday afternoon tbe burial of Mrs. Percy Lithgow is. visiting her home subjecf, "Being, a christian at home and ed a total of 828,752,251 for world's furs. erty wlth,tbls:fann of TS acres, nice set of the active working principal, is about ' Mrs,, iVank Barrett of Mason, N. H., took in school," was ably defined by the lead buildhigs, plenty of wood for home use, the in Lunenburg, ,>'EW ADVITRTISEMENTS. five feet three Inches in height, but pla^e.in this cemetery, the body being er. Miss Nins Polbrook rendered sweet- location Is high and healthy, about 1} miles his- head is big enough for a seven- ~ placed in the. lot of her father, Mr. Win- Henry Sawin of Worcester is moving ly a voeal solo.- from d^pot, stores, churches, ete., one cowi - ship. onto his.farm lately purchased at anction. horse, and all the btrming tools go. with this . footer. It is a remarkable head, phy- The pulpit of the Baptist churxdi will A Novel idea. farm for $2360. sically speaking, and when Archbold , Daughters of Veterans will meet in Mrs. Herbert Osgood will be at her farm If you are looking for a farm, drop me a this summer. be occupied Sunday by a minister from'the was on the witness stand the news Memorial hall Tuesday evening. May i26. Newton Theological seminary. W. L. It is free and deeply interests every line, or calt-at the office, I think I can inter The Misses Forestine and Ethel Hinds body who bas acnes and pains, or est you. . paper cartoonists accentuated his - Mrs; C. I. Liglit of. Denver, Col., is Pratt, who is looking over tiie ground of S. LEBOY LONGLEY, 129 Main St, Fiteh phrenological biiqips. Once he ler -)ed spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. are at their home on the hill for a short who is weak and sickly. Anyone his new parish at Brewer, -will preach' his burg,- Mass., at Besldence Shirley Center, from the chair and snatched a peicll John Going. time. farewell sermon on Sunday, May 31. can leam the surest and anickest Momhig and Evening. Telephone 1132, Fitchburg. 3m27 from a cartoonist's fingers. Uke.the The Sons of Veterans held their usual Mrs. James McDonald and Miss Blais Rev. Allen A. Bronsdon willbe the Me means to get strong ^d well by ac dell of Medford are stopping at the Wil other John D. this one has a pet meeting on Monday evening. Among morial day orator at Lancaster this year, cepting that splendid free offer of tbe EXECUTOR'S SALE OF college, tbe Syracuse University, to the business transacted was the sending a lows with Will McDonald. James Mc having accepted the invitation one'year great specialist in curing nervous and Donald has taken a trip to Oklahoma. wbich tie has contributed more than a sum of money to the Chelsea fire sufferers. chronic diseases Dr. Green of 34 million dollars. The Squannicook steamer company also Huntley N. Spaulding and wife were J. C. Ayer,lodge, A.O.U.W., {lolds its Temple Place, Boston, Mass. He REAL ESTATE guests at the Willows on Snnday. •contributed funds. regular meeting, Monday evening, May 251 has established a system pf letter cor- IN LITTLETON, MASS. There will be a special town meeting in J. S.' Cook, tree warden, has superin George Peneseau has rented the Cottage "Hous of th Baskervilles." tended the .letting out of several thousand respoudence throngh which*all sick Memorial hall at eight Thursday evening. on Harvard road owned by Mr. Phelps of and suffering people can learn exact By virtue of a power of sale grant Co'nan Doyle's'"Hound of the Bas white pine trees on the plain. The work Ayer, and will occupy same when repairs May 28, to hear the report of the com ly what ails tbem, and jiist how to ed by the Judge of the Probate kervilles," a "fearsonie animal," Is mittee relative to steam fire engine; to was done for Mr. Mead of Acton. ara completed. said to have ite origin in the legends get well, without e.xpense 'and with Court of Middlesex ss., I shall sell borrow and appropriate money to purchase of packs of spectral hounds, which Rev. AV. H. Dearborn, D D-, of Boston out leaving their homes. All they all the Real Estate, with the build a new or second-hand fire engine, or act SHIRLEY. will preach at the Universalist church on are popular in various parts of Eng in any way thereto; to borrow and appro have to do is to write to the Doctor, ings thereon, of the late Jamea C. Sunday morning. May 24, at eleven o'clock. Hazzard of Littleton, of said County, land and Wales. In the North ot ' priate money to repair the old engine, and JsNion DA>-CE.—A dancing party for Dr. Dearborn is one of the leading preach stating each symptom frotn which England these apparitions are known to borrow and appropriate money to pur the juniors was held in Oddfellows' hall ers of the country and deserves agood they are saffering, and he will ans at Public Anction, June sixth, nine chase and install a new furnace for the last Saturday afternoon, under the direc teen hundred and €ight at two as "Gabriel's hounds;" in Devon, tbe audience. Y.p.c.u. meeting in the vestry wer their letter, explaining their case "Wisk," "West," or "Heath hounds;" library, or act in any way in relation there tion of Mrs. C. R. White. Those present o'clock, P. M., on the premises. Said at seven pjn., subject," Recreation;'" lead thoroughly, telling just what tho trou In Wales, "Cron .Annwn," or "Cwn to. consisted of the pnpils of Mrs. White and er, Mrs. Colburn. Real Estate is located on the Haz their friends. A large representation was ble is and what to do to be cured. Wybir,'' and in Cornwall, the "devil's • On Monday the body of Miss Ella £. present from Ayer. It was a ver)- delight The Alliance held its regular fortnight He gives the greatest care and atten zard Road, so-called, leading from dandy dogs." Th^.y are supposed to Gilson of Boston, a cousin of the Misses iul occasion. Punch and other dainty re ly meeting on-May 14/ with Mrs. L. J. fion to/every letter, and tells the Pingn^ille to North Littleton, and be evil spirits hunting the soals of . Gilson of this village, was brought here freshments were served by Misses Maggie Farnsworth. It was a stormy day and the cause of each symptom so plainly boonded as follows: Beginning at a the dead. for interment in. the family lot. Love and Emma Knowles. Mrs. \^ite attendance being small, it was voted to stump at comer of land of J. H. Tut ) that patients tinderstand instantly . t Charles T. Haynes and fainily have presented each junior with a pretty little defer the paper on Alice and Phoebe Gary jnst what ails them. And all this tle ; thence by Hazzard Road south moved from the village, where they spent souvenir. Miss Hannah Wilson and Miss until some future time. The next meeting 66° west to an ironbound at land of Royal Joke Not Appreciated. I' will be with Mrs. H. M. Grout on Thurs costs nothing. It is a splendid op- the winter, to their summer home on Etta Dippman furnished, music at the pi H. 0. Burnham; thence north 22" Leopold of Belgium has I>een play Townsend EilL ano, and the Misses Flora Shepard and day, May ,28, when she will give a paper portnnity_ for those who cannot af east by said Burnham land to an ing his royal joke about his unroyal Eleanor Miner rendered a piano duet. The on James Russell Lowell. ford the time or expense to go to the prankQ for ihany a year, laying »v- Following are the newly<.elected ofEcers ironbound ; thence north 15° east by of Squannicook steamer company: party lasted from two till five p.m., and On account of change In business, E. P. city. Dr. Greene makes a specialty ery story ot his unseemingly beha.ior proved to be a very pretty eocial event for Spauldinr-'" " •-^ land of John Wright to an ironbound A. P. Bliss, foreman; H. E. Bucklev, 1st ipaulding will sell his personal property at of caring patients through letter cor to his "double" In Paris, M. Ftouret the large number in attendance. he Brookside hotel In Shirley '\'Illage by in wall; thence south SH" west to an asst.; J. W. French, 2d asst.; J. Livingston, auction on Wednesday, May 27, st one o"cIock respondence. He is the most suc- of the Hachette publishing house. But clerk; G. L. Eastman, treas. and fireman; ironbound at ditch at land of 6. H.^ RichardHargraves,engineer; H.E.Buckley, p. m. Sale positive. E. H. Farwell, auc cessfal specialist in caring nervous Fouret, who is eminently respectable, steward; Mark Colby, C. A. Wright, J. W. ExTERTATNMENT.—The Phi Alpha Pi tioneer. • and chronic diseases, and is the db- Barker; thence by said ditch nortb is getting tired of the Joke, and pro French, standing committee. fraternity of boys held a social and en ENTERTAINED.—The King's Daughters coverer of-that wonderful medicine, 45" east to stump; thence south ll" poses to bring suit for libel against tertainment in the vestry of the Congre of the Coneregational church were enter Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve oast to brook; thence following the tho King. Leopold's^ reputation Is of WES T.—The iUostrated lecture J[on gational church on Monday evening. ' The tained by Mrs. Bessie Collyer at her home brook in a northeast direcl!ion to an "Hiawatha," given in Seminary ball, Tast voung people of the town were present in remedy. Those who write to him no sort of consequence at this date, Wednesday evening. A covered supper iroibound st comer of land of H. O. but M. FV}uret's is valuable. Friday evening by ReV. A. T. Kempton large numbers, while the older ones were was served, all the members contributing get cured. of Lunenbnig, ,proved a treat to all who moch in evidence. The real spirit of mer Bnmham; thence south 15* east by somehidden dainty, which was novel and ditch on land of H. O. Burnham to attended, ana the beantiful colored views, riment and cordiality predominated. It amusing, besides adding to the variety of 3. W. Berry w. L. Averv Chair of Animal Psychology. combined-with the pleasing manner of the was without doubt tbe most successful af good things te be disp .>'^. :'>ii'.