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§mtttt , I HUSHED EVKHY THURSDAY By Estate of A.O.H.LIVINGSTON, GEORGE L. BROWN, r OOR AND jfOB JOINTING Of every description educated with promptness ami at low rates. DEVOTED TO POLITICS, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, AND WHOLE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE. VOL. 50. ELIZABETHTOWN, ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 16, I9O2. NO. 41. gldceriismg Jtates. Reading Notices, among reading matter, 5 cents a line. Business Cards (not occupying more than one inch space) $3.00 per year. Legal advertising at rates prescribed by- law. Other advertising rates made known oa. application. Birth, Marriage and Death notices free. Correspondence of public interests so- licited from all parts of the county. The subscription price of the Post and Gazette is $1.00 per year, payable strictly in advance. Local ami Vi«l»lt.v._ —Wire at, Henry A. Ami' •i for tin «il lierr -Steel cells til have am ••-Dr. T. \ A. Wnssnii oiue from New YnrkTuc.- •x County returned day aft or- --Our voiier French, is seri writing. --N. liennai iu Elkubetlito :lay. hie neighbor. Win. msiy ill at present of Port Hem ,-n doing bi T .'ss ye — He eighth ill\ ti frost li Indeed, i ineli thu Ciiiitiii's I'm of Wills ,e of UHJ lietorc pureluisin mer suit inspect Simoi of Hanm-Is just receive - The Kpworth Lea- boro plans to give a. e lures in the near future. -Daniel R Pavue of Wadhams Mills was in I'll i/.abei lit own doing business Tuesday afternoon. •--(*.< >rlo Metealf aud II. I van Hub- erts of tins village vKited their parents in Port Henry Sunday. — Dr. W. tv L'nttihoii of Westport made a professional call iu Klizu- bei.hknvn Thursday night last. -Mr. and .Mrs. .John Kmiiney of iliis village wore made happy by the arrival of a Milk girl last Friday —William T. lu-U. Mass.. P»'-!ting Co.. was in <.\vr Sunday. II is said (hat t —Elmer E. Wakefield and wife of New Pond Inn were observed about town Monday. —Thomas Sutherland of Troy, the world-famed boiler maker, is again sojourning in the Boquet Valley. —Farmers bringing butter to M. C. Stan ton's store will please pack it in tubs, as no ball butter will be- taken by him after this date. -Several Elizabethtown citizens enjoyed fishing iu the vicinity of ' Pond Inn last week Thursday and Friday and report a nice catch. f I>wisJ \ TI ' C > lnwl1 W \ °' T ' U> Wi U hoU 1 ( ,' ^ ' .' j the next meeting at the Baptist par- \ ' sonage iu this village Friday, May KJjh. ai- 1 o'clock in the afternoon. —Napoleon Marsha of Wadhams Mills and John Meehan of Port Henry favored the Post & Gazette office with a pleasant call Tuesday morning. —George Delano lately returned to Ticonderoga from the New York Hospital, where he has been for two months receivingsurgical treatment. A bone was removed from his leg. --Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Marvin were, observed passing through Eliz- abethtown Monday afternoon, being on their way to Lewis from Keene Heights where they had been visit- ing. -Those in need of plaster for land would do well to call on or communicate with Napoleon Marsha who has plenty of the Wheaton brand at his home near Wadhams Mills, Essex County, N. Y. —The Eltzabethtown Military Band concert did not materialize last Friday evening owing to the inclem- ency of Hie weather. If the weather is favorable the program reported jiituam of Spring- presenting Jewell hard fr r'nduy and Saturday last hurt, the fruit prospects materially in Wills- bom and vicinity. -Sylvester C. Derby. Klizabetb- fr... n'.- veteran tin-smith arid plumb- went t' rk at hi -The ki 1 serve rnre rm •. May : Simon '\s elutl it- boy ii a ii..l; -Mr. ai ,sed Mil <iav for m Will.- -Cumin 0 idi k Mil 22 c iii ''».: •oi en >.'.\ii at Sii ? of It >w u iii id KI Tic frui : es < •e c i of aut y N M igh oon )l'o Hi lloll ics v/.-y\ Ul :U oi rn 1,1 ideroga Mon • tiiere. tiie iM. E. i •am and cake. day to •hurch in the ie ebureh, Thurs- Ml are invited. b ..• i has e,very tii itf the boys. 1 have him •folk suit for ;. !). W. P( Klizabellilow being on fliei to their Caseai is- { >e i week.' W .\mtiu'K the shirt, waists t.h town, I'ri ing in • Take filled 1 suin- •acoelc n ves- ir way .lovilie ill be nicest ever ees to Mrs. 1/IK/I.' 1\\ Talro, Formerly of this place, has been engaged as hosisekeeper for Ilie season by Hon. Milla.nl F. Harnosof Chimney Point, West Addison, Vermont. - llemeiuber thai Co: nv K re p for last Friday night's concert will be rendered to-morrow evening. —To-day we commence the publi- cation of a series of articles, or rath- er a '•continued article,\ \A Bio- graphical Sketch of Philip Skeno,\ the founder of Skenesborougb, now Whitehall which cannrft fail to be of special interest to many of our read- ers, especially those residing in the Champlain Valley. Nothing so am- bitious, to our knowledge, has ever been attempted in an Essex County paper concerning Ske.ne as our pro- posed article and we commend the matter to our readers, feeling that thej will tind in it much that will be highly interesting. Local Base Ball. The coining Saturday afternoon the Sherman Collegiate base bull nine comes here to play the Eliz- abeth town High School team. Next Wednesday afternoon the Wcstport High School team comes here, to play the EHzabethtown High School boy's. Each game cheduled to com- mence at 2 o'clock sharp. Collection will be taken at each game to help defray expenses. The Post's New Assistant. e slight typographical errors and banquet at Maplewood \ occurred in the Post last week. I mi Wednesday. May 2H, V.HY2. to j However, we hope and trust our which all survivors of Hint gallant' umny neaden will be lenient and old military org; ization are invited, Kepairs and improvements are well under way at The Windsor in this viliiigc. Cvovjv film of Lewis is doing file carpenter work. Harry Palmer the painting aud Fred Derby the plumbing. There will be a L'l'iind entertaiu- nii'iit ai Keene Vall-y the evening of May ::i)!!i tor tlie betielit of t-ho local Foresters, The Corner Store, a the Tea (h-jim-i in !o ir liittrmiion. /hers\ institute <*ts, being Commissioner District. County in this villag- m Prof. Henry R. Sanford c< Having known Conduct of Ksscx •xt week, inducting. r Sanford •ise due charity when .we ex- plain the main cause of the errors. The fact is that a new assistant in the form of a 12 !b. boy arrived at the Editor's home just at press time last Thursday afternoon and of course, such small matters as attend- ing to office work had to bo tempor- arily laid aside. Mother and son are both apparently doing well aud hope and trust that the latter may grow up to aid in making the Post, a\bigger and better\ paper and tuns repay for the slight but never- theless apparent disarrangement of Thursday lust. personally for the past fifteen ye wo shall be glad fo see him o more. -The Cubble Hill Coif links look e::cpption.'illy line, thanks fo Albert JV Patterson. Keeper of the Green. » has v and w IHMltly SI rk been M'iemeiited by favora- nsiderable efforts h n.iniel K. Payne of Wadlui Mils spet.t Saturday and Sunday at I; aea with his son Charles, who is a senior in Cornell University. While, at Ithaca Mr. Payne saw Princeton a.nd Cornell play a game of base ball, the former winning. - We must insist, that our corres- |-oudv'uts send in their items early each week. La The Exceptionally Ookl Weather of Friday and Saturday Last- Last, Saturday morning ice formed an inch thick here iu Elizabethtown The ground froze hard in places. Snow Hakes were in the air here both Friday and Saturday at times and a high cold wiud also prevail both davs. Gardens got a bad \sot back \-and local fruit prospects were demoralized. Even the loaves upon our rock maple trees were killed It, was one of the coldest spells ever experienced in the month ol May. •ek Samuel P. Avery, Jr., Again at His Button Island Summer Home, Samuel P. Avery, Jr., fof Fift Avenue, New York, spent Sunday and Monday in this town, the gues' of his frieud, B. Bishop, at the lat ia h inUn '\j ter's attractive New Russi home es'-iiig communication arrived uft^r j Tiiestluy Mr. Avery left town foi we had KOUO to press Thursday ! lli s HUm \ nm . home on Button Island afternoon and still another arrived Friday morning. Please b<: prompt in future. -Mrs. F. F. liat.haway and Miss TOSS Lake Charaplaiu from Wesi port, taking \Dug\ and Byron Du ning along with him to do the house work, etc. May Mr. Avery's pas' l.iiella Hathaway have returned to j pleasure at Button Island bo but ai U.oir Pittsburgh home from Wash-' index to future enjoyment there, i D. C , whore they parsed < winter months. And we might l that Miss Hathaway's engairc- the wish of one who appreciates tl surroundings, unsurpassed views :Me., having repeatedly beon hoi ment to a Washington, D. C. gentle- pitably entertained at the paradi; man is announced. of I*»k<? Cbamplain. \The Balsams,\ \The Balsams,\ not \Balsami the name of the new cottage set- nt up back of the Cobble Hill olf Ground. The slight error in ,st week's Post was due to failure our part to correctly decipher le handwriting of our informer. The name, however, carries with the suggestion of fragrance, rest id health and work there among e Balsams continues with un- >ated interest and enthusiasm. Mr. and Mrs. Kiugsley were up ?rc in Elizabethtown over Sunday id expressed themselves as high- Ltisfied with the work already both carpenter work and umbing. The work on the M cottage, to be icupicd by Rev. Jabez Backus aud C h j fe of Westport, Con sen commenced. has just Silas Disotell Hurt at Westport E. E. Station. Monday while at work at West- jrt R R Station unloading the eel cells for the Essex County jail this village Silas Disotell, an em- loye at Deer's Head Inn, had the ifortune to have a piece of steel ting drop on his left hand. Mr. sotell slipped and the casting fell id struck the back of his left hand :uch a way as to break or smash s four fingers. Dr. Hennessey of r estport attended the unfortunate in. Henry A. Aird, who happened be at Westport station, brought r. Disotell to his Elizabethtown An Exhibition of Good Judgment by \Dave\ Hunter. Johu Meehan of Port Henry, well nowu far and near as an expert mbermau, came out from Newcomb st week, he having been employed David Hunter, Esq., ex-Super- isor of Newcomb, the past few louths. \Dave\ shows good judg- lent in employing such men as John,\ as they are \few and far tween.\ Keeseville, (Received too late tcr loitrtl'\\ test week.) We are told that A. Fletcher has sold his camp at Port Douglass to Dr. Nead of Albany. Mr. Wolcott of Boston has leased the property of Mrs. Dodge on Pleasant Street, and will spend the summer with his family iu Keese- ille. Mr. and Mrs. A. Barber are re- joicing over the advent of a son. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Callan were visited by the stork last week and behold a bright eyed Miss. Con- gratulations are in order. T. F. Con way was in town Mon- day and contracted business at the Chasm as well. Forty children received first com- nuniou at the St. John's Church last Sabbath. The youngest child of T. Roonan is seriously ill. W. Shelley, our popular express icssenser, has moved to Beach itreet, in the house formerly occu- pied by L. Gardiner. Mrs. Lubombard, mother of M. jubo'mbard, was buried Wednes- day morning, Rev. Father Charbc- neau officiating. Miss. Issabella Goddeau of Pitts- field, Mass., is in town, guest of her sister, Miss Anna Goddeau. Miss Ella Wolcott and Miss Maud Washer are visiting Plattsburgh and surrounding towns this week. Messrs. Stone, St. Louis, Tomp- ins and Pease of Plattsburgh, in the Losier Works, were in town over the Sabbath. Mrs. S. C. Thomas of Clintonville was iu town Wednesday. Large quantities of pulp wood are being sent down the river now, we are told 10,000 cords in all. Plattsburgh Base Ball Arrangements. Manager Reynolds of the Platts- urgh base ball club has signed tcher Duff and first baseman ibertson. of last year's team, and unkett, the Tufts College catcher. meeting of the Northern New ork League was held iu Platts- rgh Friday and a schedule [opted. The season will open June with St. Albans at Potsdam, uly 2 Malone will play at Platts- urgh. Season tickets will be sold at lattsburgh which will not only ad- it purchasers to Clinton Park to JO games played there but also iver trolly car fare to Clinton Park id back to Plattsburgh. Season skets, for men, $10, ladies $5. It /idently pays to be alady inPlatts- irgh! Maplewood Inn Music. Miss Victoria Pattison of West :u't will play the piano at \Maple- ood Inn the coming season, Miss lacDuffe of Albany playing the iolin. Both ladies are expert in icir lines of musical performance, iss Pattison having had some of IR best of American instruction .id Miss MacDuffe having had the ;1 vantage not ouly of the best in is country but of foreign countries! st well. Paul Eubens \Three Little Maids\ Produced in London. Iu London. England, Mond ight the opera ''Three Little aids,\ which was produced by iss Edna May, bore the name of 5 aul Rubens of Troy as composer. 3 aul Rubens was pianist and leader >f the orchestra at The Windsor in iis village last summer and will ierve in the same capacity again the ioming season. New Russia. May 12,—The weather still con- tinues cold; hard frost nearly every night the past week; also very hard winds; does not look very favorable for farmers at present. S. P. Avery, Jr., of New York City is a guest of B. Bishop. Mr. Avery and D. Dunning intend going to Mr. Avery's summer home, But- ton Bay Island, Tuesday. F. W. T Holcomb is home for a time after spending some time at Eliz- abethtown. Allen H. Laverty saw three fine deer one Sunday recently. H. E. Pitkin has returned home with a chestnut horse he purchased while away. They are making preparations for the new iron bridge to be placed across Roaring Brook. John M. Van Husen from Albany is a guest at Hunter's Home. Hun- ter's Home has many improvements and is nearly i*eady for city guests, F. J. Patterson's people havethi'ee city guests at their cottage. Mrs. D. S. Dunning is quite ill. T. S. Sutherland is spending a few days at his South Valley home. Iletoer- The aged mother of Luke Strana- han died last Sunday night, after a long period of suffering. Izman Boardman is driving a fine new horse. Melvin Lott of Westport has pur- chased H. J. Spear's horse, Prince. Miss Sara Spear of Essex speu Sunday with her parents here. We noticed Mrs. F. A. Smith and Malta out driving yesterday. N. Mason is not as well as usual. Mrs. R. T. Morau visited relatives here this week. We are having high winds and cold weather. We enjoy very much the society of our new telephone neighbors. We understand Deerhead is soon to have a line. Mrs. S. A. West is improving in Hull s Falls . May 12—Miss Susie Dibble hat 'ensions Eecently Granted to Eesidentsgone ; to Rutland, Vt., to live witt of Essex Oounty. jher aunt, Mrs. Estabrooks. MaryR. Blanchardof Ticonderoga, J Mi-s. Ella Russell is visitin, widow of Fred Blanchard, formerly j friends at Ausable Forks, of Elizabethtown, $12 per month; Ed- \ Norman Dibble has gone to Lon in J. Olney of Wilmington $6; Lake for the summer. Frederick C. Knapp of Blooming- dale m. Frank Hull and wife and Wilbei Hull and wife visited relatives this place Saturday afternoon an Sunday. Mrs. Wallace Black is visitinj he» parents. Several from this place attendee The Home For Crippled Children To Be On Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. The ladies who manage the home for crippled children to which the ( the revival meetings at Keene Valle; Post referred several weeks ago, Thursday and Friday evenings have decided to take a place on Lake, i as t, week. Sunapee. in New Hampshire. | Albert Webb went to Lake Plaeii Several places in Westport and; Monday. ;lizabethtown had been referred to' as suitable for this home for crippled hildren. There are, however, so North Hudso n School will close in the distric many considerations in taking crip- j schools next week on account < pled children away from New York,; teachers attending teachers institu especially those of expense, that It which is to be held in Ticonderoga is not an easy matter to decide. Thoraaa f. Mannix Appointed City Clerk. commencing Monday, May 19th. Mass was held in the R. C.Churc Sunday, also a mission is to be hel The first meeting of the Common ; in the same church May 20th-21s Council of the new city of Platts-' all are cordially invited to attend, burgh was held Friday evening, I Mr. and Mrs.Ed win Pepper visite Mayor Albert Sbarron presiding, his mother in Moriah Sunday. The only appointment was that of! Mrs. Whitney, who has beon cool Thomas F. Mannix as City Clerk, ing for Dan Laymond through rivei The salary of the City Clerk of di'iving.has returned to her home Plattsburgh is not to exceed $750. Loch Muller. Jeiinie Tefo has returned home •om Newcomb where she has been irking for the past winter. Frank Pratt and lady registered Root's Hotel Sunday. A new iron bridge has been erected Hozley \hollar\, which add very much to the accommodation of the aeople in that little berg. Much oraise is due to our road commis- oner, Napolean Matros. George Hozley is the owner of a vheel. Miss Rose Miller, formerly from >rth Hudson, was married May th to Mr. Ponteray from St. Johu's, lanada; at present writing they are isiting her sister, Mrs. Ernest ierard. Miss Bertha North has gone to ork in Ticonderoga for the summer, [so Miss Pearl Duntly left Sunday route for New Russia to work for rnest Barber. Fred Matros has recently pur- lased him afinespan of horsesfrom ohn Anderson. Melbourne and Byron Araistrong sft town a few days ago en route Lake Placid where they are ex- jcting to remain for the summer. Mrs. Minnie Baker and children re visiting her father and mother, Ir. and Mrs. C. Armstrong. Whallonstxurgh • Rev.Dr.Du Bois moved bis family their summer cottage in Keene «st week. George Gladd left here yesterday ir a place near Ballston; he is not jrtain of the limit of bis absence. Mrs. O. K. Royce and daughter, rs. J. G. Walker, made a trip to restport Saturday. J. R. Mather made a business trip Westport Saturday Mrs. J. R. Mather visited at the ame of her brother Jonathan Jrasted in Westport Friday andSat- trday; the condition of both Mr. nd Mrs. Brasted are critical and he report from there is not encour- aging. Rev. Robert Earl has moved his amily here and as soon as the par- onage is complete in the way of re- airs, they will be found there and hat will be soon. Mrs. Porter enjoyed the 90th an versary of her birth Sunday, May [th; she walked the distance of a lile and a half Thursday with her laughter to visit her grandson; she las been anxious to walk the dis ice of three miles to visit her [aughter,but was persuaded to give up; on Thui*sday she soon left her laughter in the rear and arrived at ler destined port first. She is a onspicuously able pedestrian; bu ew of her age have the physical .treugth and ability to keep pace vith her. Sedgwick Bruice has lived >pier's Falls some time; he moved iis family there several months ago. Ir. Bruice came back here last eck; he reported that his wife ho is a daughter of Mrs. Martha Jen way had abandoned her hus- »and and children, three in number, id left her home; at present hei hereabouts is not known by any o ier friends. Mrs. Benway returnei borne with Mr. Bruice Saturday tt *et one of the children. This vicinity was visited with jeuuine freeze Friday night; fu; oats were out in numbers Frida ,nd Saturday. Water standing in ub where stock is watered froze )ver; the ice was close to ? of an inch. Vegetable gardens being late were not hurt much; a good man, ladies had their house plants set ou1 id all succumbed to the frost. Essex . May 14.—We have been visitec with a very cold wind for the pasi eek, and on Monday morning hite frost was observed. John T. McFarland of Maloue was n town last week. Mr. and Mrs.- C. A. Jordan of Eliz abcthtown spent Sunday at Esses with their daughter, Miss Edn; ordan. Mrs. W.. Bard of Ferrisburgh Center, Vt., is visiting friends and relatives in Essex. Mrs. Whitney of Burlington, Vt. is in town visiting her daughtei Mrs. L. W. Safford. Mr. Henry Labarge.who has bee very dangerously ill from relapse pneumonia, we are glad to report; ittle better and we trust he ma; xintinue to gain. Miss Edna Jordan spent Wednes day evening with friends at th< \Homestead Basin Harbor, turning on steamer Chateauga; Thursday morning. Some excursionists from Vei gennes, Vt., visited Essex Sundaj coming over and l'eturning on Thi Victor. Mrs. Charles Smart of Willsboi called on friends in town Sunday. Our school will be closed ues week, teachers being absent to a tend the Institute which is to held at Elizabethtown. Friday afternoon there will rhetorical exercises rendered by tt different departments of the sehoc We are sorry to learn that Mi Nellie McEachron is quite siok. Willsboro- Miss Edith Strong, who has been dth Mrs. Harriett Rowley for the >ast three months, has returned to ter home in Reber very ill and it is lid threatened with pneumonia and itended by Dr. Sweatt of Essex. Mrs. C. Palmer and little daughter farjorie have been absent on a visit ir the past week at Wm.Severance's. The cold wiud Friday night has lestroyed what green leaves and )lossoms that had made our gardens md streets look so nicely. High winds did not iuterfere with ie hop at Reynolds' Hall on Friday ening, which the young people mjoyed until an early hour on Sat- irday morning. Carlyle Palmer has purchased a ine carriage horse. Mr. Towner now occupies the cot- tage owned by Mrs. Mea'd. Walter Smith has a flue variety of owering tulips, which is indeed a eautiful sight. The new store house on the hill i; •st nearingcompletion. Rumor say ine more are to be erected soon. The cold winds have dene great lamage through this section, early :>ear trees, cherries, plums and >each trees being in full bloom, trawberries being at their best, ere frozen and tofcaly destroyed. r ater in some places being frozen quarter of an inch thick. Miss Katbryn Flagg has returned om Lewis whereshe has been visit- ig her grandparents the past week Miss Nellie Moran visited hei parents, who reside in Brooldieldon Sunday. Miss Irene Ellsworth spent the sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jnderwood of Brookfield. A social will be held at Oakley Smith's residence on Friday even ng, May 16th, 1902, for the benefit }f the Congregational Church. A trained nurse is attending John 3addigan,who is doing well at pres ;ut writing. Mrs. Harriet Rowley is also gaining slowly. Deerhead . Gilbert Daby of Ausable Forks sailed on friends in town Tuesday. Willie Goff is confined to his room with a hard cold. Miss Alice Cross spent several lays in Reber, the guest of Miss. 3ora Gay. Warren Nichols lost a valuablt »\v by her getting mired in the pas ire. Willie Gay of Reber was in tovvi last Sunday. Mrs. Warreu Nichols visited •riends at Lewis Center Tuesda 1 ast. Eugene Moss was home from Eliz- >bethtovvn to attend the social. The dime social at H. J. Wrisloy' was a success. A very nice crow* .lid a pleasant fcime,$b\.4O cts. taken. A. A. Morse of Essex was in town ?hursday last. Farmers here are shearing their heep. Bennie Nichols has gone to Lak Placid for the summer. Dansinger, the peddler, put up a T. J. Cross' over Sunday. The Misses Minnie and Ella. Wris ley went to Whallonsburgh Sunday to spend a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Spellman of Eliz abcthtown spent Sunday with Mrs ipellman's sister, Mary Murphy. Etib a Mills. Joseph Wright has several team; hauling his hard wood lumber Iron this place to Mineville. Bessie aud Lena Burros visite< Belle Stvingham Sunday. Mrs. Wakefield is at Maplewood inn. Clareuco Lawrence and sisters Miss Martha and Fannie, were i D. Stringham's Thursday and Fr day. Allen and J. S. Laverty of Ne< Russia were at this place Sunday. Henry Proctor is drawing lumbe: For Mr. Wright. C. W. H. Bigelow is having addition put on his camp. Westport. May 14—Miss Mattie Nicholson of Elizabethtown spent a few days in town last week, the guest of Miss Winifred Smith. Dr. Holt is attending a Dental convention in Schenectady this week. Will Royce and wife spent Thurs day in Burlington. N. Gibbs and family will occupy iss Draper's cottage for the sum- South Lewis. May 5.—We are grieved to hear the severe illness of Linda Fish, wh has been attending W. H. S. th> past year and who would graduati in June only on this account. Later—L. Fish is hoped to be ci the way to recovery under the skil ful treatment of Dr. Barton of Wills borough, but expects to go to Bui lington for treatment as soon as sh is able; her friends in this sectio: hope to hear of her speedy recover.} Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Johnson a rejoicing over the arrival of a ne boarder, a boy, aud D. M. says h< will not trade him off. F. L. Miller and sister visited this section last week. Arbor Day passed oil very pleas antly at Brainards school with trc planting, speaking and singing, fo which we give Miss Mabel Whitney our teacher, credit. Miss Edith Knapp and Emms Lewis visited relatives and friem in Lewis a short time since. The telephone poles between Eli; abethtown and Wadhams havelatel been set; we are glad to see the ne ' line so nearly completed, E. R. L. Retta Brunnell is in town visiting er parents and friends. Fred Richards, who has been ill, able to be out again. Miss Elda Fish made a business •ip to Burlington Thursday. Mrs. Dr. Houghton of Abauy pending a couple of weeks at 1 ittage in Westport. Attorney Beers of Port Henry ransacted business in town Friday. Herbert Sheldon called on old riends around town Friday Saturday. Philip Gardner and wife spent unday at Port Henry. Miss Smith of Willsboro visited •iends in town last week. Charles Hobbis and family aud ister Miss Alice of Lake Placid isited relatives and friends in West- >rt over Sunday. Mrs. Burrows called on Elizabeth wn friends Monday. Charles Barns of the Transpor Maine is visiting relatives and ok i-iends in town for a few days. A baby boy arrived at the hom< Henry Vaughanon Friday, May 0. S. Disotell of Elizabethtown bad (is hahd badly cut in a smash-up Lear the depot Monday. Dr. Hen tessey dressed the injured hand. Mrs. Nelson Monville died at he lome m Westport Saturday'night nterment in the R. C. cemeterj lesday morning. A baby boy arrived at the horni •f the Rev. Mr. Corchron Sunday. Hay 11. Crown Point . Will Quirck of Port Henry was i own Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Pond returned froi Utica Saturday. The young people gave Miss Win ie Farnsworth a surprise party Yiday evening. A good time was •eported by all. Patsy Spellman and Roy Bus •ere in Mineville Sunday. The Messrs. Butterfield of Poi Henry were in town Monday. Lee F. Phelps of Port Penry wa.' n town Sunday. Mrs. O. C. McJntyre and sor Clark were in Ticonderoga Sunday. Walton lluestis was inPortHenn kind ay. We were very sorry to hear of tb< sudden death of Felix Gooshaw Mr. Gooshaw was an old citizei this place. The family have the sym jathy of all. Ii'onville. May 13—Whata stringof windai :;old weather we are having for th month of May; three nights of ban Yeezing have made the fresh clove look sick; it seems too bad, but we have got to take things as they come hope it has not killed all the fruit. We were shocked to hear of tl death of Felix Gooshaw of Crow Point, who died vei*y suddenly las Sunday morning. The funeral of Mrs. Crawford, aged lady, was held at the churc here last. Saturday afternoon. Re Mr. Posson officiated; interment i Ironville Cemetery. The social last Thursday nigl was quite well attended. Proceed $10.70. Viceroy Moore was some bett< at last reports. Mrs. Elwin Kent of Mineville vis ted her mother, Mrs. Drew, las week, who is in poor health. John Kent is in Minevilleat wor Misses Kate and Cai*rie Pbilli went Monday to the Buck Mansio to work. Fred Garfield and his mother East Shoreham, Vt., visited at W. DeLong's Saturday and Sunda^ Mrs. Willard Bemis visited William Cook's last Thursday. Mrs. Matthew Hunter visite friends in Ironville last week. NOW-AND-THEN. Upper Jay- May 12—Mrs. A. S. Prime is iting her daughter, Mattie. who is studant at Syracuse University. Charles Winch is improving u der the skilful treatment of I Baum. Eugene Smith's family have movi into their farm house about two mil< southwest of this village. Mrs. Merritt Hathaway has gon to join her husband, who has a posi turn in Connecticut. A. D. Knapen and Wm. Cox ar building a house for parties at At sable Forks. Joho Hays has moved on the fan across the river, known as the O moud Goueher farm, recently v eated by Fred Lackey. A cold wave visited Upper J, May 9th. Qnu,. Scliroo n Lake- Mrs. Frank Philo, after a very tort illness, died last Sunday 2 p. . She leaves a little baby girl, iterment at Minerva. Sawyer Brothers are repairing ic Windsor for the coming season, \ning room has been improved by extra window aud large glass. new platform is being made along ie east side of the house. The indsor has recently purchased a s\v carriage to be used for the ben- it of their guests during the su^ er. Mrs. Carney, who has been ill ame time past, died last Thursday. McKcnzie and family have return- d from the south. They will pro- ed at once to make their house 2ady for the coming season. Mrs. Butler of Tannery Row died ist Thursday after a very short ill- ess. Funeral services wei'e hold rom her home Sunday, Rev. Mr. wis officiating. Mi*s. Jonas Baker, who has been great sufferer during the-past win- r, died at her home last Wednes- ay. Funeral services re held Yidav, Rev. Mr. Lewis officiating. Harry and Euuice Root went to rlens Falls Thursday, where they pend ten days visiting relatives. Mrs. H. P. Jones left town Wed- iesday for Elk Lake, whereshe will •in her husband and remain until ite fall. Rev. W. D. Marsh of Wilmington s visiting friends at Schroon Lake. Paris Russell of New York is in own visiting his relatives. Ellis Locke aud Prop'r Davis of 3 ine Ridge cottage were in town iver Sunday. Roy Lock wood of Ticonderoga pent Saturday and Sunday at his lome. Dr. and Mrs. Flint have returned Vorn their extended trip intoNorth- jrn New York. The Chester nine came to Schroon Lake on Saturday to compete with he Schroon nine. The Chester line were defeated by a score 17 to .. They were entertained with a lance lit the Windsor. J. H. Skilhnan, who has been pending his spring vacation at Schroon, returned to New York Tuesday. Mrs. O'Neil and daughters of New York have arrived in town. Memorial Day in Elizabethtown. The Commander of S. C. Dwyer Post. No. 528. G. A. R.. expects res- idcuts of Lewis. Wadhams Mills and Westport to decorate the graves of soldiers in their respective locali- ties Friday morning, May 30th. At noon all old soldiers within the ju- risdiction of S, C. Dwyer Post are to repair to Elizabeth town where dinner will be served. Directly after dinner the gi'aves of soldiers in the Old Cemetery and Riverside lemctery will be decorated, after which all will march to the Cou^ -louse, whore singing, band music and speaking will be beard. The school children march and sing, a quartet will render special music, also the Elizabethtown Military Baud. Hon. Francis A. Smith will be the orator of the day. followed by ither speakers. Let every old sol- dier be in his place in the front row and let the effort of the veterans be supplemented by the presence of the public generally. A Lewis Product. Monday morning' John K. Banker, Esq., the Lewis-Elizahetl-'^wn mail carrier, handed us an exceptionally large egg, saying: \Ed. sent that to you as a Brown Leghorn specimen,'' or words to that effect. We meas- ured this particular Lewis product and found it was 8 inches around it lengthwise and 6| inches in circum- ference, properly speaking. Pretty good for a Brown Leghorn. Next! The Demoltiion of an Old Landmark. Friday morning last the wind blew down an old landmark in this village. We refer to the fall of the big willow tree which stood on the Branch or Little Boquet near the old Noble store. It was B feet in diameter aud according to the late Wm. W. Root was the first willow tree set out in Elizabethtown. It fell across the stream and gave A. K. Dudley's office a close call. Men are now at work cutting up the tree and hauling it out of the water. Wont Follow Advice After Paying For It. In a recent article a prominent physician says, \It is next to im- possible for the physician to get his patients to carry out any prescribed course of hygiene or diet to the smallest extent; he has but one re- sort left, namely, the drug treat- ment.\ When medicines are used for chronic constipation, the most mild and gentle obtainable, such as Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, should be employed. Their use is not followed by constipation as they leave the bowels in a natural and healthy condition. For sale by C. N. Williams, druggist. Q .May.
