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SWANTON Or COURIER ESTABLISHED 1877. SWANTON, VERMONT, THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1911. VOL. 35.

NO. WANT and FOR SALE ADS One cent a word each insertion. No ad taken for less than 15c. Payable in advance. for Sale FOR SALE-Dry birch and tole 16 inch wood.

Burton arm. 40tf SLEIGHS FOR SALE--Just received carload of Canadian leights made of the best material. 'he painting and trimmings are irst class. Fitted with Carron hoes, will out-wear three of the common shoes. C.

F. Smith, Swanton, Vt. 45 52p SALE-25 barrels winter pples, 4 coal stoves, 1 pair No. 2 orse sleds Farrell Swanton, Vt. 46 FOR SALE--A desirable medium riced dwelling with barn and good on Greenwich street at a bargain sold soon.

First class condition. Immediate possession given. pply to B. B. Blake.

tf Wanted WANTED -Strictly fresh eggs at once. Best price paid. tf Mrs. S. H.

Martin STRAYED--One black and white ad two red white yearling calves me into my pasture. Owner can ave same by paying charges. 46 Sim Perry, Waugh farm. Among The Clubs The Shakespeare Club is to meet for its meeting of November 28th with Mrs. E.

N. Bullard. An article upon the Products of Egypt will be read by Mrs. Cussons, and one upon Egypt as it ls, by Mrs. Fleury.

Roll call at the Monday Reading Club next week is to be answered by current events. The program "Welcome" "God is our Refuge" The Alhambra, Mrs. Cray Legends of the Alhambra, Mrs. Sanborn, the latter reading to be given by Miss May Parsons who is substituting in the absence of Mrs. Sanborn.

The meeting will be held next Monday afternoon with Mrs. F. N. Haff. HAVE YOU SEEN the Buff Sepia Portraits at the DeBarge Studio.

They make nice Christmas presents for your friends. People sending pictures at a distance should make sittings early. 47-48 SWANTON LOCAL The condition of Miss Helen Martindale who has been confined to the house by illness for some time, is improved. Mrs. F.

W. Stiles 'is making a visit which will extend over Thanksgiving, to her son, Geo. H. Stiles and his wife. Mrs.

B. S. Flint of Spring street has returned from a visit in Burlington with her sister, Mrs. E. H.

Martin and Mr. Flint from a few days' visit at his former home in Randolph. NOTICE The legal voters of the town of Swanton, are hereby notified and warned to meet in Village Hall, in said Swanton, on Tuesday, December 5th 1911, at two o'clock in the afternoon to transact the following business. viz: 1st-To consider and act upon the final report of the Prudential Committee of Swanton Falls Union School District. 2nd-To see if the town will instruct its Selectmen to ascertain the amount of indebtedness of Swanton Falls Union School District, at the time of its vote to surrender its charter, for repairs and new bulidings and make settlement thereof in accordance with the provisions of Sec.

1146 of Public Statutes. 3rd-To transact any other business throught proper and necessary when met. Dated at Swanton, this 22nd day of November A. D. 1911.

M. W. Barney Selectmen D. R. Donaldson of J.

H. Niles Swanton, Vt. 47-48 SWANTON LOCAL Mr. and Mrs. Clinton J.

Parker of Fort Meade, went Saturday to Junction City, Kansas, where they will remain a few weeks before returning to Florida for the winter. The marriage of Miss Claire Woodworth of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and Leonard Edwards, a ranchman of the same place, took place at the home of the parents of the bride November sixth. Miss Woodworth is granddaughter of Mrs. Harvey Phelps and has visited in town occasionally. Coats and Suits That Satisfy "Coats and Suits that satisfy" is the one best phrase we can find to describe our handsome new Coats and Suits for women.

They satisfy the most critical dressers as to style, fit and service, and they satisfy them at a lower cost than any other, no matter how particular you may be as regards correct style, or how exacting you may be about your Suits and Coats withstanding hard and long wear. Ours will give you perfect satisafction, because we are striving to make SMALL PROFITS BUILD UP A BIG BUSINESS. Styles were never more pleasing or values better than those we are showing now. Women's good, warm, black cloth Coats latest styles, $5.00 to $19.50 Women's mixed cloth coats, $10.00 to 16.50 Children's coats, $2.98 and up Infants' bear-skin and caracul coats $1.98 to 5.00 Women's Suits latest styles, black and colors, $10. to 15.

Women's black and brown coney Muffs, from $1.35 up Women's Fur Sets, all prices Children's Fur Sets, $1.25 and up New lines of scarfs. necwkear, jewel cases, comb and brush sets, etc, suitable for Xmas gifts. On the second floor we are showing splendid lines of Men's, Boys' and Childreu's Clothing, Overcoats, Pants etc, at prices that will appeal to your sence of econemy. COLBURN-GOODRICH COMPANY SWANTON'S BUSIEST SPOT Successors to SUTER'S CASH DEPARTMENT STORE Swanton, Vermont Women's Fur Coats These comfortable outer garments are one of our winter specialties. We show them in the various furs and in different lengths, suitable for rough driving, or automobile use or for dressier wear.

Driving Coats Of black Siberian wolf, 50 in. long at $22.50 Of black Astrachan, 52 in. long at $32.50 Of Natural Kangaroo, trimmed with Racoon, 52 in. long for $52.50 Of best natural Racoon, 52 in, long, satin lined, for $85.00 Fur Coats for Dressier Wear Full length Russian Pony, at $55.00 to 125.00 36 in. Marmot, Mink blend, at $55.00 6 6 66 6 6 52 $75.00 36 in.

Blended Musk Rat at $60.00 and 75.00 52 66 66 66 $80.00 and 100.00 Women's Fur Lined Coats Made with best imported black broadcloth shells, to close at extremely low prices, lined Marmot, Muskrat and natural, Opossum, values $50.00 to 85.00, to close at $30.00 to 50.00 IN THE BASEMENT Fur Baby Carriage Robes Made of Iceland Lamb, in widths suitable for Go Cart or Carriage. Latest idea with pocket. A perfect protection for baby, $3.50, 3.75, 4.50, 5.00, 6.00 and 7.50 Richardson Twigg Co THE STORE THAT SELLS WOOLTEX SWANTON LOCAL The house on Furman Place owned by Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McGregor now of Chazy, N.

was entirely consumed by fire about one o'clock Sunday morning. The house was occupied by Joseph Benoit, a salesman for ColburnGoodrich Company. In the absence of Mrs. Benoit and child in Newport, Mr. Benoit was living at the Grand Avenue hotel and reports that when he attended to furnace early in the evening everything was safe, so the origin of fire remains a mystery.

When he was summoned and when the neighbors were aroused by the reflection of the conflagration, the house was a mass of fierce flame and it was impossible to make an entrance to save anything, there fore the loss is total. Mr. Benoit among other things loses a new piano and a picture of his father, the only one in existence. He carried $700 insurance on his belongings. Nothing is left of the building except the charred walls and the large chimney.

Mr. McGregor was insured for $1000. The fire was a spectacular one, the high west wind fanning it into tne air and carrying the flame and embers a great distance toward Greenwich street. Had there not been a light fall of snow upon them, or had the fire occurred on a street where the buildings were adjacent, the loss of property would have been great. The fire department responded as promptly as was possible but it seemed a long time from the sounding of the alarm until a stream of water was turned onto the building.

It necessarily takes some time for the firemen to don their clothes, get to the hose house from different parts of the town, get the apparatus out and drag it by hand to the scene of tne fire. Is not this suggestive of a needed reform? In the opinion of some. it would be wisdom and economy to engage a horse nearby which would always be in readiness to take the apparatus to a fire quickly and thereby avert perhaps a disastrous loss. C. H.

Newell was in Burlington Monday. L. D. Allen and Mrs. Anna Cussons have returned from Adamsville, where they went to attend the funeral of Mr.

Allen's brother-in-law, Jared Hawke. Mrs. E. H. Rood returned Monday from a visit of several weeks in Highgate with relatives and friends.

DEATH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Another familiar figure is missing from our streets, that of the colored man George Washington. Born in slavery in Burkville, Virginia, about seventy-flve years ago, he joined the northern army at Burkville, Junction, serving with Frank Ganley of this place as waiter to the Captain of Company F. 10th Vermont Regiment. At this time he was probably tweny-five years of age. He and Ganley came to Swanton in the summer of 1864 with the late Capt.

Hiram Platt and he lived with the former at his home on the hempyard for a time. For years he was employed by Captain Platt as dyer in the woolen mill a the foot of mill hill. Later by Jewett and Rich in their hay and lime business, then in the tannery, after which he entered the business of trucking which business he followed until the time of his death. This resulted from heart failure. his health never having been robust since it was broken by his period of hay pressing several years ago.

He was of fine physique and likely had always been, as he was known to have made the statement that he was sold from the block when eleven months old, for the sum of $900 Mr. Washington considering his advantages in life, being born in slavery and having no education, was more than an ordinary man; he was honest, reliable and well thought of by all who knew him. He died Saturday morning, Nov. 18 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery Mon ay. The bearers were P.

J. Farrell, Jerry Bushware, William JeanMarie, L. J. Cline, F. H.

Brown and S. E. Gladden. He was twice married and leaves a wife and several children. Interest at 4 Per Cent AND NO TAXES SWANTON SAVINGS BANK and TRUST COMPANY This bank pays interest on Savings Deposits at the rate of four per cent per annum, compounded semi-annually; and all Taxes on all Deposits Loans Upon Real Estate and Approved Names Solicited SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS C.

E. ALLEN, M. W. BARNEY, F. W.

FRENCH, President Vice President and Treas. Assistant Treas. The Doom of the Turk By THEODORE IL BOICE OW the turkey's days are numbered, and be won't have long to' wait, For the the end of proclamation's this November issued there fixing will our be a royal Thanksgiving feast, date. At And we'll bear a cry for turkey from the highest to the least. There'll be 1.0 pumpkin pie and Axin's down each eager throat to toss, There'll be many palate ticklers and the crapberry sauce, And there'll be a lot of dainties some feel inclined to shirk, But not one of all the eaters will decline slice of (L To There' be children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, With the turkey on the table as the object that enchants, ur they are still as hungry as on feasting days before They'll not stop at one good serving, but will pass their plates for more.

There'll be trouble for the carver, though he tries to do his best, When too many, call for drumsticks and too many want the breast; There'll be frequent calls for in the most persuasive topes, And before the feast de ended there'll be nothing left but bones. So get rendy, Alliter Gobbles, and get ready, Mistress Hen, For Thanksgiving day is coming, and you'll see your finish then. (Now, at Inst, your days are numbered, and you won't have long to wait At the end of this November you'll be smoking on the plate, RADLEY CO. DO IT DO IT SEE GEORGE anton, Vt. FIRE INSURANCE at BRADLEY NOW Town Clerk's Office LOISELLE Swanton, Vt.

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