The Hardwick Gazette from Hardwick, Vermont • 10

1 1 Thursday. Dec. 11, 1913 Xmas Dance MOURN Christmas New NOVELTY England's 5-- GYMNASIUM SINGING Big TINKER'S -ARTISTS Dance 5 HARDWICK December ORCHESTRA Favorites 24 $2,000.00 IN NOVELTY INSTRUMI N' CONCERT 8 to 9 DANCING to Last Appearance Until Big Annual Bern Dance Vou are invited to Call at SMITH'S PHARMACY before completing your Xmas Shopping, and inspect our full line of Silverware, Hand Painted and Old Ivory ware, Watches, Chains, Clocks, Be Rings, Pins, Bracelets, 3 Cuff Buttons, Mirrors, Toilet Sets, ManicureSets, Xmas Stationery, Books, Cards and BookME lets, also a large line of Confectionery. E. G.

SMITH, Pharmacist EAST HARDWICK, VERMONT FROM KANSAS Dear Editor: There are so many of the friends in the East who have wished me to write about this country that I thought if you would be so kind as to print the letter in your paper all might read who desired and some would get a little idea of what I have seen and they might never see, ard it would be somewhat interesting. I arrived here in the evening at about 7:00 o'clock. We unloaded the cattle and took them up to the ranch as they were very much in need of water. 1 his ranch is situated about five miles to the west and one mile south of Coats, Kansas and one mile south east of Springvale. Springvale is now a little flag station on the Santa Fe railroad.

It was once a very thriving town with a bank and eral houses. Now there is only one house and a stock yard and an elevator for loading wheat. This town is a gravel pit for the railrond. It is also the heart of the great diamond mines of America which some of you have read about. There have been quantity of diamonds found here A boy, Henry Lewis, who lives here, is the possessor of one about as large over as an old-fashioned cent and about onehalf of an inch thick.

This is SO clear and being polished on two sides, you can read through it These diamonds lose their luster after a little while. They are realy a kind of quartz and of no great value This country is a rolling prairielt is. level only on the top of ridges or in other a level country lot of little valleys in it. These valleys are called draws. 1 suppose this is because they draw off the surface water when it rains abundantly.

The sides are gradual slopes, somewhat saucer shaped. They commence by a slight hollow in the ground and run off into quite large valleys. forty or fifty feet deep and all the way up to one-half mile wide. In most places the draws are as much cultivated as any part of the field. To me this country seems like the ocean with the top of the waves planed off so they are flat, only on a larger scale.

There is only one natural tree in sight of this ranch I can see it by looking down the draw on to Spring Creek, about two miles distant. There are quite a number of trees along the creeks. in the valley where there is a continuous running of water. In this place about eighty or one hundred feet below the general level of the prairie. Spring Creek empties into Turkey Creek which in turn empties into Medicine River.

Spring Creek is formed by springs coming out of the gravel beds that form part of the country. There is no hard pan under the surface of the When Selecting a Christmas Present--You cannot find anything SO suitable as an EDISON PHONOGRAPH OR A VICTOR TALKING MACHINE You want to For the whole remember I sell family from Baby on easy payments up to Grandpa and carry a comand Grandma. plete stock of machines and records. New Records received every month. You don't have to go out of town to purchase talking machines now.

Clark's Phonograph Parlor Hardwick, Vt. ground here; it is sandy leam clear down to the water bed. All water here comes from wells about one hundred feet deep in this vicinity and it is ninety-eight per cent pure, very soft and good to drink. Almost every one has from one to five wind mills and at times a gasolene engine is used, but mostly wind mills. Mr.

Corliss has in his ranch about 640 acres, 300 pasture and 340 under cultivation. 1 his is the largest Jersey cattle ranch in the state of Kansas. He has at present about 325 head of cattle and some times as many as 500 head. He is buying and selling all the time, some one being here nearly every day looking for cattle of every description. There are two houses, one barn, two large sheds, a well house and a brick hen house on the ranch.

Cne of the houses was built this summer and is just being furnished and occupied, since Clark Corliss has returned from 1 the East with his bride. I wish them a long life and all the happiness it is possible for them to possess. The new house is a fine brick one with all modern improvements, well finished, standing on a dry knoll or across a small draw about forty rods from the other houses. The cow barn ties up about forty hea'. with horse barn arranged between two rows of stantions.

The horse stalls are on the ground, but the cows have a cement floor to stand on. The horses stand on the dirt. The two big sheds are low posted for the cattle to run about in and are mostly for young cattle and hogs. There are twelve horses and 8 pair of mules, two of the former animals being saddle horses. A lot of horse back riding is done here, especially driving cattle.

There are about 150 hogs of all sizes from the little pigs to old hogs that weigh five hundred pounds. There is some squeal when they are being fed. The hogs a are the most privileged characters on the place. They are around the barn yard, in the pasture, in the wheat fields and every place, but the door yard and feed floor, and they dive in there if a gate or door is left open any length of time. The other day our foreman and Mr.

Corliss were feeding the hogs in long troughs in the yard by dipping wheat chop that had been soaked in water in barrels, and you can imagine the condition of the ground around the hogs troughs, where 40 many hogs feed. Two or three hogs, very anxious to get their feed made a dive between their legs and carried the men off their feet and down in the mud. The language that was used when they arose was not fit to be taught in Sunday school or anywhere else. Hogs get there living mostly on the pasture until nearly grown, then they are fed all they can eat until ready for market. It takes about a year to grow them.

Wheat is the principle crop here, undoubtedly four-fifths of the crop is wheat in this country, the rest is Kaffra corn and cane with alfalfa on the bottom lands, where it can be raised well. Wheat 's sown in September and Cetober or as soon as possible after harvest. As soon as it is up two or three inches the cattle are turned out to pasture and they eat this wheat all winter, when the weather permits and about April, the cattle are shut off. The wheat will come to maturity so that the last of June they commence to cut the ripe grain. They claim to get a better crop of wheat where the cattle are pastured on it during the winter.

Wheat is usually drilled into the old stuble with out plowing or harrowing the ground. This is called hagging in wheat, and if the weather is right they claim to get as good results as where it is plowed and harrowed. The methods and details with results I will leave for another time as it is too large a subject to be placed in here. Yours respectfully, Dec 1, 1913. W.

E. Stevens, Coats, Kansas. Old Benton Homestead Burns. The old Benton homestead at Guildhall, owned by Col Everett Benton, of Boston, was burned Saturday night, with much of its contents, though considerable furniture and many of the priceless heirlooms of the family were saved. The origin of the fire is not known.

EAST CABOT Mr. and Mrs. Ira Read started for Florida Friday of last week, to spend the winter with their son, George. The best wishes of all their friends go with them on their well-earned vacation. Mrs.

W. D. Barr spent the week-end in Barre. Mrs. Ellis Leonard and children are visiting relatives in Boston, for several days.

School opened December 1st for the winter term. Miss Beulah Allen spent Saturday and Sunday at Dudley Fitzgerald's in West Barnet. Enos Hopkins and sister are doing the work for Mr and Mrs. Ira Reed during their absence. On December 1st a party was given Miss Gertrude Peck in honor of her eighteenth birthday.

A large number of friends were present and all enjoyed a very pleasant evening. WALDEN Mrs. Harry Judking and children of East Hardwick are visiting at G. H. Kingsbury's.

Mrs. John Goslant has gone to Florida to spend the winter. W. S. Robertson of Singhampton, is visiting his aunt, Mrs.

N. J. Kingsbury. Arlene 'hurston is entertaining her friend, Miss Alice Parkhurst, of St. Johnsury.

SHIPMAN'S NEWS STORE Toyland is Joyland---SHIPMAN'S MAN'S Is the Principal Station on the Road to Toyland TT HAS BEEN OUR AIM to provide a stock of Holiday Goods that would range in variety from tiny gifts to fill the toes of the Baby's stockings to the more expensive articles in Silverware and Cut Glass for the Christmas table. Visit our store and be convinced that we are showing an unusually EX-, tensive and attractive line of Holiday Goods. TOYS SILVERWARE BOOKS We have put in over $2,000 We can show as extensive a Let your Children become worth of Toys- the largest line of Silverware line ever brought into Hardas you acquainted with the best could care to choose from. literature. Books are the wick.

best Gifts for your friends. Lanterns Knives and Forks Magic Blocks Spoons Tops Cream Ladles Books by all the popular Drums Butter Dishes authors Tin Horns Bibles Tin Soldiers Cake Trays Holders Dictionaries, 10c to $2.00 Whistles Tooth-pick Olive Spoons Alger's 10c Books Pocket Knives Aluminum Ware Sugar Bowls Gems from Shakespeare Puzzles Salt and Pepper Sets Tennyson's Poems Toy Watches Souvenir Spoons Browning's Poems Teddy Bears Christmas Booklets Fur Dogs Silver Mugs Cloth-covered Picture Books Horses Silver Mesh Bags Autograph Albums Silver Bread Trays DOLLS Nut Cracks and Picks Post-Card Albums Wonderful Variety of Dolls for the Little Ladies of the CUT GLASS NOVELTIES town. Little Dolls and Big Dolls Our Line of Cut Glass is We are showing a line of Dressed Dolls and Undressed very beautiful and makes ex- Novelties too extensive to Dolls Dolls' Heads quisite Christmas Gifts. enumerate. Rut ber Dolls Rag Dolls Water Sets Pocket Books Wine Sets JEWELRY Leather Bags Vases in different sizes Fountain Pens We can show an endless Fruit Holders Diaries array of Jewelry at low prices.

Pickle Dishes Small Mirrors Olive Dishes Rings and Pins And a variety of other Pipes Pins pieces. Boxes Cigars (large or small) Baby Collar Buttons and Skates of all kinds Sleeve Links MECHANICAL TOYS Holly Paper Crepe Paper GAMES Buy your Boys Mechanical Shelf Paper Our Stock of Games is Toys they will amuse Paper Napkins and themselves the rest of the complete and includes any- Confectionery of all kinds thing you may wish for. winter. Paintings (water color, home and State views) Playing Cards Locomotives Christmas Post Cards Checker Boards Electric Cars Dominoes Trains of Cars Painters' Supplies Card Games Hook and Ladder Carts Cribbage Boards Banks Lots of others for old and Shooting Targets Subscriptions taken for all young. Aeroplanes and many others Magazines.

DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HERE AND DO IT NOW EX-CONGRESSMAN H. H. POWERS DEAD The Hon. H. H.

Powers, former ber of Congress from the first Vermont district, died at eight o'clock Monday evening at his home in Morrisville as the result of a shock suffered last evening at nine o'clock. Mrs. Powers, their son, Chief Justice George M. Powers of the supreme court and their daughter, Miss Caroline Powers, were with him when the end came. Horace Henry Powers was born in Morristown 78 years and six months ago, the son of Horace and Love E.

(Gilman) Powers. He was educated at People's Academy there, and at the University of Vermont, from which he was graduated in 1855. He married Caroline E. Waterman of Morristown in 1858. Having taught school for two years he studied law at Morristown and was admitted to the bar in 1858, practicing at Hyde Park until 1862.

He then formed a partnership with the Hon. E. K. Gleed of Morrisville and this continued till 1874 when Mr. Powers was elevated to the bench of the supreme court of Vermont, where he served until 1890.

Cranmer of the Universalist church officiated, assisted by Rev. W. E. Baker and Rev. V.

M. Hardy. Music was furnished by a male quartet from Mystic Lodge, F. A. of Stowe and Mrs.

Ida Churchill, Miss Grace Bedell presiding at the organ. C. H. A. Stafford, C.

H. Sloeum, Fisher, Judge George A. Morse, C. F. Randall and Charles Stanford of Hardwick acted as bearers.

Interment was made in Pleasant View cemetery. WEST WOODBURY Mr. Farr of Woodbury was town on school business last week. Ai Fisher is working for Alden Olmstend. Herbert Boyce and brother, Fred, killed a buck the last of November.

It I stead. weighed 250 pounds. Willman Powers has moved from ELmore to the Mr. Frank Power's place. Carl Burnham was at his parents' over Sunday.

George Robbins and wife attended the funeral of a relative in Craftsbury recently. Charles Batchelder and daughter are stopping with G. A. Sulham. Clinton Conger is threshing for Robert Boyce.

Herbert Boyce and Mildred, his niece, visited his brother in Middlesex over Sunday. Judge Powers was elected to the 52nd Congress in 1890 from the first Vermont district and was re-elected until 1901. when he was succeeded by the Hon. D. J.

Foster, of Burlington. Following this retirement from Congress Judge Powers was for a number of years chief counsel for the Rutland Railroad company. In 1892 he was chairman of the Vermont delegation to the national lican convention which nominated Benjamin Harrison for president. Judge Powers represented Hyde Park in the Legislature of 1858 and Morristown in 1874, when he was speaker of the House. He was senator from Lamoille county in 1872 and State's attorney from 1861 to 1862; member of the council of censors of Vermont in 1869; member of the State constitutional convention in 1870 and a trustee of the University of Vermont from 1883 to 1910.

A prayer service was held at the Powers' residence, on Park Wednesday at 2 P. followed by funeral services at the Universalist church, of which he WAS a liberal supporter. Rev. R. D.

CHUBBS CROSSING Charlie Morey arrived Monday night from Springfield, where he has been on a visit for six weeks. Mrs. J. D. Martin and son, Ralph, went to Montreal Friday to visit her daughters and sister, Mrs.

H. D. McMullen. J. F.

Stratton is to move this week to the farm he recently purchased of B. E. Potter. The item in last week's issue in regard" to Myra Bunday WAS an error. The item should have read Myra Withers.

Mrs. James Withers and her mother, Mrs. Frances Stratton, visited in Craftsbury last week. Clyde Humphrey is working for John Gilbert. Bert Potter is moving to his farm on East Hill..