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' ;: \''*••• • \ '• . * ' Stt' Vol. VII. Brushton, N. Y., Saturday, February 25, 1905. • •* Notice to Electors. Biennial Town Meeting March the 7th, 1905 ;; The following is a' list of all the nomi- • nations for offices to be nlled at the bi- ennial town meeting to*be held in,the town of Moira, N. Y., at the Town, House in the village of Moira, in said town, on the 7th day of Maseeh, 1905, Democratic ' Bepnbliean ^nominations Nominations For Supervisor Elislia A. Bust. Charles E. Brush. For Town -Clerk Richard J. Savage! L. Yemon Clark. For Justices of Peace .. Asa B. TV'itherelL \William H. Montross. Alpheus B. Conger. Edwin T. Dunn. } For Assessors George G-allivan. WilKs Manchester. ri Meflin W. Bullish Parker N. Bitmap. George H. Conger. Harland B. Clark. For Collector Murty M\. Qulnn. Walter Allen. Commissioner of Highways Timothy Fernando D. Woods. O'Connell, Jr. For Overseer of Poor, District Xo. 1 Ira (1 Young. Samuel Bidgood. For Overseer of Poor; District No, 2 Patrick S. Daly. Bert Turner. For Constables Patrick Sullivan. Jndson Mosier. Frank LaFleur. Qlarence E. MeBricIe. John D. Sullivan. Walter Allen, James Manning. Levi Peck. Muyty M. Quinn. Cleon J. Quhm. For Inspectors Johii A. Holland IVilliam McKane. Por Inspectors Irving Peck. Bxi*on T. Fish. of Election. Dist. Xo. 1 ' Herbert S. Hogain * Edward R. CrandaJl. of Election, Dist. No. 2 Augustus W^Sheals. Ai thur L. Donaldson. Hotice of Propositions, To the Electors of the town of Moira, FrankBn.CoTintv', IS*. T.: Xotice is 'hereby given that, pursuant to petition, made thereto!* as prescribed by section. 16<oi the Liquor Tax Law, which petition was filed in the office of the town, clerk of the town of Moira on the 8th day of Feb.' 1905,* the following propositions will be submitted to \be voted upon by ballot at the aforesaid \bi- ennial town meeting 1 , to wit: 1 Selling Liquor to be Drunk on the-' Premises where Sold: _J§haU any corporation, association, copartnership or person be authorized to traffic in liquor under the provisions of fembdivislQ.il one of' seQtian eleven of the Honor tax law, namely, by selling: liquor to be drunk on the premises where sold, in the town of Moira? v t 2. Selling 1 Liquor not, to be Drunk on the premises where sold: • l Shall any corporation, association, co- partnership or person be authorized to traffic in liquor under the provisions of subdivision two of section eleven of the liquor tax law, namely, by selling liquor not to be drunk on the premises where sold in the town of Moir,a? - 8. Selling Liquor asaPharmacistona Physician'^ Prescription: Shall any corporation, association, co- partnership or person be authorized to traffic in liquor under the provisions of subdivison three of section eleven of the liquor tax law, namely, by selling liquor as* a pharmacist on a physician's pre- scription, in the tbwn of Moira? 4, Selling-Liquor by Hotel Keepers: Shall any corporation, association, co- partnership or person be authorized to traffic in liquor under subdivision one of section eleven' of the liquor tax law, but only in connection with the business of keeping a hotel in- the town p pf Moira, if the majority of the vote§* feast on the ilrst question submitted are in the nega- tive? * _ t Also notice is hereby given that, pursu- ant to applications, made therefor as pre- scribed by section 32^ of the Town Law, which applications were filed in the ofi\ce of the town clerk of the town \of Mqira on the 11th and 13th days ot February, 1905, respectively, \the following propo- sitions will be submitted to be voted upon by ballot at the aforesaid biennial town meeting^ tcf wit: Shall the Town Board and the Com- missioner of Highways of the town of Moira, K. Y. be^uthorized to purchase a machine for fir'iishmg stone; Shall the System of Taxation for work- ing the highways in the Town of Moira be changed from the Labor System to the Money System oi Taxation, pursuant to Sections 50, 51, 52, and 53 of the Highway Law? Dated Moira, N. X., February 23,1905. 0HA8. H. McKAXEl To-wa Clerk. A^.Nit3HT ALAB1 Worse than an alarm of fire at ni&ht is the brassy cough of croup, which sounds like the children's death knell and it means death-unless something Is done quickly. Foley'fc Honey and Tar never falls to give Instant relief and quietly cures tlie worst forms of croup. Mrs. P. h. Cordier, of Manaington, Ky,, writes: **My three year old girl &ad 3 severe ease of croup; the doctor said she could not live. I got a bottle of Jfoley's Honey and Tor, thetet dose gave quick relief and saved hex life.\ Ketoe substitutes^ Sold by The *£he Hawkins Plu*maey. or Cleaning Your Sidewalks 10a jis to Pay Expenses The committee in charge of cleaning the sidewalks would request that those who have not already praid their sub- scription , would do s so at once as the winter has been more severe than usual; therefore it will cost more. Very few as yet have paid in anything this season and It has been the experience of the- committee that they can't' clean the walks by wind^ so kindly send an your subscriptions to J. S. < Qnmn at once,- so that we may be able to meet our bills. Sidewalk.Committee. •;<€ No. THE\ HALL OF FAME. The prince of Montenegro has six automobiles- in are no railways in hi 3-erniany. There \country. Professor Trombetti, who was 1 re- CORRESPONDENCE, Cook$ .Corners. Feb. %%— Sheriff Steen^erge, of one, was in town Tuesday on business. Quite a'•number of friends gathered at the home of Elvin Bean for a party last Friday .evening. Hiram Kelley, of St. Eegis Falls, visit- ed friends in town last week. Wm, Condon is numbered with-the sick. Dennis Maloney returned East last Wednesday night. There are quite a number of people here who find plenty ot time to attend dances and parties but when it 'comes to visiting the sick they have no time to spare. 1 \ • PANSY. Peb. 23rd—The many friends and rela- tives of, Mrs. Sarah Boss gathered at her home .February 17tli to celebrate her 46th birthday. < . - George Trurnbel came up from. Moira. the first of the week to visit friends. Birt Lavigne, of Alburg, and Bertha LaYalley y of Moiiu, will be .married at Brushton at seven o'clock next Monday morning by Epv. E. G. Brice., Amos Folcy has afc last succeeded in getting possession of his house and has moved back home. John LaEocque has moved into W, A. Clark's house and will begin working for him the first of next month. Want Column. Want, Lost, Found,; To Bent, For Sale, and other like notices inserted under this head, for one-hajlf cent a word each week, I Cash with order.' Minimum Charge 10 Cents. SEWING MACHINES-Good new sewing machines for sale iat about one- half usual price. & P. Kftnball, Brush- ton, NJ. ( . 12* FABM TO BENT-^M4' Cttrtis farm to rent. Two miles north of Tay lor's Creamery. 7 cows and 80 acres of land. \Mrs. waxy A. Clary, No. Bangor, N, Y,, R. JE\ D. No. 1, 8tf EVIDENCE FOB SAXE-The John LaMeche residence for gaje. FOB SALE—Begiatered Berkshire boar. Also a quantity of hay and straw. *9 , ,-Wra. Best, No. Bangor. GOOD HAY—At #10.00, Straw ai 10.00 per ton, on farm, enquire of C» S. Bockwell, Westville Center, or Madison Whitman, on the premises^ East Dickin- son, N. Y. . ' \^ *9 COWS FOB SALE—The undersigned offers fqr sale 15 young cows. Eleanor Harrington, Brushton, N. X*, 6tf FOB SALE—Good liouse and barn, 2 acres land, halfway, between Brushton and Moixa, near railroad crossing. Also poultry house to accommodate 400 hens. 7-w-S* D, C, McDonald, Aloira, N. i* FOB SALE—Plaining Kill^ Sash, Door and Blind, Factory, established Ig60» a complete running plant, posses- sion given at onoe. Satisfactory reason for selling* B. 3\ Harris & Sons^ Brush- ton, N. % Stf FLINCH C ABDS—The genuine cards at this omee at SO cents a pack. Passe Partont Binding in various colors at thia office. OLD PAPMBS—Old newspapers put up in bundles at 5 eeats a fcuadle at Urn office. eently appointed to th philology at Bologna barber's assistant. His specialty is the Indian languages of America. Booker Washington, Jr.% the_ eldest son of Booker T. Wa an application for appointment as\ pay- master in the army. chair of Semitic . began life as-a South and North hington, has filed ,Th.e applicant Is now a student at tljie Massachusetts\ Institute of Technology. \ * Captain John S. Cnmmin^s^of Bath, Me., is the possessor ot the bill of' Jad-^ Ing for the nyst; shipment of ice erer made out of the Kennebec river in a barge. . The barge Tvas the Batenella and was towed out of 187G. ICing Oscar II. hs Gustaf Andreen, pre tana jcolleg^,, Rock h of the Oicler of the ognition of his effort'5 in the cause higher educatidn Americans. Senlator Aiger, -foil ..custom, presented a. suits!of clothes to tie Detroit news- boys New Year's presided afc an entertainment in that city given by the senator us a compli- ment to them. 5 died recently in Henry S. Pirevost ,Lima, Peru. Hi's fa the first Americans TO establish busj- in. Peru,^ having than seventy years ago*, Mr, Prevost continued his father 1 ^ business and had extensive plantation Interests va the country. - Professor ShertmrA .Wesley B.urn- ham,' astronomer at 'the servatory, has -rccei gold medal of the Fr 'Sciences as a result o; astronomy.., Prof esso the river-Aug. 3, s appointed Dr. sklent of Augus- III., knight orth Star in roe- xmoiLg Swedish Ms usual large number of day as well as ;her one of gone there more ob- Lalande- meh Academy of Ms researches 4B r Burnhain, it Is said, has discovered more double stars in his work than' any .other Hying hs- tronomer., - - * „ , Mr. an4 Mrs. Walter T. Carpenter of Richmond, InjL, haye^t een married near- ly seventy -one years. 1 now ninety-four years,old, Mr. Carpenter-is and his wife in sc few months. Both are still active and driye in. their, carriage to the eFriends' meeting Mr. Carpenter cares for his own ho:*se and occasion- ally rides on horseback • \ William A. Brady, who made a pro- nounced success in hi! 5 management ot \The Pit/* is knows as a prince, of bluffers. Years ago when he was try- ing to get a foothold success he was on th manager at $20 & week. The company reached a town.,in that, although a matinee performance was billed, everybody a park to witness a bs lloon ascension \ I was always ch ideas,*** says Mr. Br*Ldy. the company's manag on the ladder of, i road as a stage alifornia to find had gone out to ock full of wild \I went to r and said, \What , BRAJMT., will you give me if ill this house this for you?' 'Why, Billy, you arfe-crazy! n It-^an't be done, especially at this late hour.' *t *Ho matter,'* > I said. 'Whatwill you gif^melf Iflllitr\ The manager loot- ed him over and, se<dng he needed -something to wear, offered a suit of clothes. The offer 'was taken. **I jumped on n car,\ Mr. Brady re- lates, \and went ant to the fair grounds and found, I should ttink, not less than 25,000 people there. Something had happened to the balloon, and the peo- ple were impatient, The aeronaut yas busy trying to finis! L inflating it. 1 .1 jumped on a barrel i&at happened! to be in one corner of the crowjci and started tf make a speech. I told them thox by a special arrangement with the men who were giving the balloon as*- cension y the aseensioi poned until 6 p. m M would be post- thus giving the erowti an opportunity to attend the matinee performamjei of the 'White Slave* at the Orftesrfop theater. I de- livered t$at barangae in three parts of the crowd before me balloon man got on to my game. I got back to the theater to find a ko* fling mob trying to buy seats. Tlie he ruse wtm packed. Standing room even co| uldnt be bought. I got my suit of * \X Large Class t® Graduate Next Basket Ball Team Defeats Br^slier H. $, The follo^dng- seniors w^l be graduat- ed from the Brushton Righ Scnool Juae 2Gth: KIttie M. \Wescott has been chosen valedictoTlan^ slie having attained an average of 88—87SI in all wort: Earl V. Gillespie salutafcoria-nj he -having attain- ed the next highest average mark, 88, The other seniors received averages and honors as indicated. . , ' Gen. AyeT. Honors Kittie M. Wescott, l Earl Y. Gillespie, Jane Hourihan,\ How-axd Patten, Maud Farnsworthj Neva A. Dana, Leon !E\ PalthKimball, John Hourihan, 88—8-21 88 - 87—16-17 87—9.19 86—17-19 86—1-10 85—10-19 84—4-5 84—1-3. 9 7 8 0. 7 9 This is the largest ©lass fchat has ever een graduated from the High School and as seen by the above list has. a good even average in scholarship. All but one o£ the class axe non-residents. The follov/ing members of the training class intend to obtain,' certificates' M. Pearl! BeLongv, Ariie Ot} Ferris^ L,eah L> Hutchlns^ Jennie' M. Montgomery» Eloise Moore, 'Hyrtle Mooie, Gejtnide Orton, W- itoy'Sniifeh, GoldieE. Turner, and Ij,ena^. -\Winters. The follawinpr .training class pupils ob- tained certificates at the January exami- nations ancl wili'grachia&e ^ith the June cla&s\ Bessie B.-Fist, Iva M. Gale, Ber- niee G. ISliles and Jessie Porter. -At a meeting of the. senior class of the High School^ held Monday afternoon, the fallowing ofScers'yere elected: . President—Howard L. Patten. \ Vice Presiden tr-Arlie G*\ Ferris. - Secretary—F. Faith JCimball. ' Treasurer—Goidie E. Turner. T^he f?illo'win-g l class day speakers were also elected\ J^rQpJiet' s and Historican—John D. Houxihan.' Poetess—Maude H. Farnsworth. Address to Juniors—Neva A, Dana. The class day exercises occur Tuesday, June 19th, and! the graduating exercises Wednesday evening, June 20th. The Physics class met for a, special session Thursday evening, Feb. 16, for the purpose of performing* some experi- ments in electricity-. After the worjfc was finished refreshments were served and a general good time was enjoyed by all. The High. School basket Ball team de- feated Brasher and Stockholm High School lasi Friday night by a seors of 23 to 3. The visitors were out classed in everyway and as the score shows the game was rather ori.e sided. Church Burned ai Hogansburg Beautiful Church and Furnishings Destroyed $50,000 Gone Up in Smoke St. Patrick's Boraan Catholic church at hogansburg was destroyed by fire early last Saturday morning, the origin of the fire remains a mystery, It was considered one ot* the handsomest churches in Northern Hew York and with its' beautiful furnishings was valued at about 860,000. There was tin insurance of $15,000 on the loss. The Brtishtom Minstrels Monday and Tuesday evenings, March 6th and 7th f are the dates that the Brushton Minstrels will be' at the Quran, opera\ house. The entertain- ment is put on by th? Citizens' Band of Brushton fox their own benefit and it promises feo eclipse the entertain- ment of the same company put on last year, Beserved seats will go on sale for ^oth nights at The Hawkins Phar- macy next Thursday, priae 35 ceo£s» After the entertainment Monday night there will be a social dance, ' Winter coughs *re apt to result in con* sumption If neglected. 13aey oan soon be broken up by using IPoIey's Honey and *Tar* Sold at The H&wkjtas H*at- mmf* it. KimbaO iepli Thinks the Day. The editor of Facts m& Fallacies 1 lv allows me spaee fqr a-ie-w'^oris si answer to Mr. J. S« Qninn: fi.rs%. Q ainn is a large tax payer and. of iniHts taxes low I infer. Second, 8mith ^iid Clark gox, no critieasm j me, so tliey neec 3 , no ^rindic^MoTi if got \what the^ eonimissioner was willing to pay and made a few dollars. Tfifei* j it was a well understood fact that stone in the river were available to\b the wall with-—if **jVxr. Qunm did ku,ow ifc_he must have forgotten to qnire^abcmt where tlie^ stone were h jiad from. Fonrth, my nerve w&s g enDu^Jb. Ibut lit tools, it ail to tmili horse baiin 1 still think that the made a* mistake in not having the done by the day, I heard an ex-co sioner say the same thing. ISfow it not to cost ahovti as muck to build d GQ nnxxm piece of stone wall Tig. wiQi stone handy, as it did to build abutments and wis^s of the Brown bridge when the labor of the could not have \been\ more than third as muchj and at the Brown br the lar^e stone handled by derrick to he drawn a long ways. It is better to. ! criticise openly than to keep chewing f>e* : hind the back—^and the commissioner — •.•»• may get his \eyes open, • S. P.-KITMBALIi, Bmshten. JAPAN J S SPY SYSTEM, Q,TLeesr Stoi-y of Sossae St. Fetex«s bw£0 '._ ?• i A good, deal has been -heard, time to time of the extent* to which the Japanese pushed their spy system*. both in Manchuria and Russia, before- the war.- Xhe accuracy of the follow- ing story is guaranteed by the Matin: Toward the end of 1898 a Japanese from \Kiusin arrived in S±. Petersburg; anel opened a tea warehouse on tfee Novsky prospect. Shops of this kind sixaply swarm in the Unssian all the same the Japanese ^exceedingly. In view -of the big business he antie-i. ip^Lted at the Easter festivities during- the following spring the tea naelT-hant * got over five of his, fellow country^.- men. as assistants. These were all ex- tremely agreeable, tactful young feji lows, who quickly ingratiated them- selves with the aristocratic clientele of the shop. \ * But despite the prosperity of their business the Japanese did not happy. Their melancholy was and at last they confessed their secret They did not in the least mind leaving Japan.; they were delighted, with Btis- sia. What they did not like was to re- main foreigners on the soil of their adopted country. Their dearest wish, they said, was to become naturalised Russians and to be admitted into Me Orthodox church. The idea appealed to the customers of the tea shop, and in course the^r were admitted into the Or- thodox church and made Russian <*iti- zetis. Shortly after this the five new Rus- sians wanted to j?et married and f oumd. families* Once more their eustomeri interested themselves in their behalf. Brides were f£mnd in .the shape of yonng^ Russian work girls T dow- ries .provided by subscription and marriage* ceremony duly Time went on, children were hom f everything in the various m seemed to be ^aost satisfactory suddenly the war broke out. Two <|a js later the Russian-Japanese tea. ^&m had all disappeared, leaving their wt^ep families behind them in Stl St Petersburg society was bergasted. The confidences it had \ y imparted to the tea w^tit to Tokyo in the form of repiorts to the Japanese general while 13ie heroes of the story, all tains or lieutenants In the ariay, went toaelc to tketr respeetive —London I Winter eough§are apt to result in tion if neglected, They can brcfeen up by using- JTotey's Tm% Sold at Tae Hawkins Pastel! Itehey, wife, and of BfeBffor, haTe beea guests .at J« B. Oafes' ^biis week. Mother cafo gafely ^ivei'oley's Wm&y and Tar to their efalicirsn for conger $ECI ootSs, for it ©otxtata aa opiates or k poisons.