The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1907, Page 7

WHERE WOMEN RUL NORWAY, ME. WORLD'S MOST | DISTINCTIVELY FEMININE CITY. Sex Supreme in All Vocations—Banks, Hotels, Post Office and Meat Markets All Managed by “Skirts. Norway, Me.—Frills, furbelows and chiffon do the actual business of this bustling thriving New E ad to In every line 2 finance, trade tler sex of Norway; proi 0. gaged, and it is the most distinc “woman's town” in America. The women not ouly clothe, hat and shoe the populatic put they gracefully | preside ove markets, the post office and thr s The women of Norway marry the living and bury th jead Legal dis- putes are tled by a feminine jus- | tice of the peace. Sick and wound- ed are administered to by a wom- an doctor. The coun ide is pho- tographed by another woman. For; 22 years the checks of the bank have been cashed by a small white wom- an’s hand, while a quarter of a cen- tury is the period that a woman has swayed the morals, opinions and poli- tics of the town through the columns of her paper. A director in the street railway and the corporation that lights the village is a woman, and she attends each | and every meeting of the directorate | and gets her pay for attendance with | the same regularity that old Uncle | Russell Sage did. | Yet it cannot be said that the fair | ones of Norway compete with the | men The latter are | too gallant to ion. They simply comfortable arm ly tell what their permit of compe loll back in their chairs and adr women “folks >. The S. B. & S. Prince store is { not only owned by two sisters, but the shop is done by wo- | y connection that a man can have with this establishment is as ¢ r street from Miss Prince store Miss ith Smith a A. Sanborn can set the type, fe he press and set up the copy for the Norway Adver- tiser as easily as she can write its editc “I was a good adder and that is the I started in the banking busi- ness,” is the modest explanation that ‘ashier Stella B. Pike gives of her association with the Norway National bank. “I soon found out, though, that it took more than an adder of figures to be a financier. But women are especially adapted for the bank- ing business. We are by nature hon- est, and that is the thing that tells in | a bank.” If there is not a preacher handy and a couple wish te get married, Miss Margaret A. Baker is the one whom the swain seeks out. As the justice of the peace she is permitted to perform the marriage ceremony, to | acknowledge deeds and administer | oaths. This justice of the peace has a clever young sister, Miss Jennie P. Baker. She is one of the most capa- ble business women in Norway, man- aging a large dry goods store, the proprietor of which lives in Portland. Miss Jennie is about 25 years old. Caring for the dead is one of the necessary things of life. Miss Grace Thayer owns a large undertaking es- tablishment and is licensed as an un- dertaker. For eight years Dr. Annette Ben- nett has been the town physician. The walls of the studio of Miss Min- nie F. Libby are covered with such fine examples of photography that her art should have a national reputa- tion The hotel women of this place are noted far and near. Martha C. Whit- marsh came to be the proprietor of the Elm house. She delights to tell of the times, 40 years ago, when the sta with four, used to dash up to her tavern door. Mrs. Lizzie Wood- man is the proprietor of the Beale house. Her sister, Mrs. Ella Tibbitts, was also a hotel keeper, but she has retired rich. One of the biggest butcher shops in } Norway is run by Mrs. Owen P. Brookes, whose husband insists that he never made money until his wife was behind the counter. There are a couple of women among the large group of money-mak- ers who attend simply to the growing of their fortunes. Miss Elizabeth B. Beal is a director in the Norway & Paris Street Railway company, and she is also a director in the corpora- tion that operates the electric lighting and power for the village and ad- jacent land. There is little or no crime in Nor- way. The town has not a saloon, and liquor is not even sold on the quiet. The men do smoke, but the women are hoping that the time will come, and come soon, when this “vicious” habit will not be indulged in by the . Voting population. way Historic Cottage to Go. New York.—Summer residents at Easthampton, L. |., are disappointed to learn that the John Howard Payne “Home, Sweet Home” cottage there is likely to be sold within a few days to a Brooklyn man. He is expected to sO alter and remodel it as to destroy its identity. When the wardens of St. Luke’s Episcopal church bought the Payne property last year, some of the summer cottagers endeavored to raise a fund with which to buy the cottage, but without success. ———— WINS FORTUNE IN ALASKA, Miner Patents Piece of Ground Over looked by Famous Company. Sioux Falls, S. D.—John Johnston, a former resident of western South Dakota, according to i have been received from Juneau, Alaska, where he now is, has “siruc« it rich” and is in a fair way to be- come a millionaire. He at present is having a centest in the courts with the famous Treadwell Mining company over a strip of valu- able mining ground which the com- pany was supposed to own, but which it is alleged was never properly loca- ted. Johnston located the strip under the mining laws of the district and applied for a patent, but this was held up and delayed by various court pro- cesses until recently, when the appli- cation for the patent was granted. The railroad of the Treadwell com- pany, part of one of the company’s great mills, and some new oil tanks belonging to the company are all on the strip of ground to which Johnston has obtained a patent. The strip is between the big dividend payers of the Treadwell company, and it was a serious proposition to the company to learn that so valuable a piece of mining property had been overlooked. In addition to this strip, Johnston has received patent for a group of copper claims on Kouperinoff island, for which he has been offered the sum of $75,000. He also has recently con- cluded a sale of some property on Douglas island for $150,000. Johnston announces that he will make a visit to his old home in South Dakota this summer, RIFLE IN TREE TRUNK. Oak Has Grown Around the Gun, Al- most Completely Imbedding It. Seattle, W About 11 miles from Centralia, on the road to Little Rock, is a curiosity, to see which would amply repay anyone for the 1 About 50 yards from the road, near a deserted homestead, is an old- fashioned rifle imbedded in the trunk of a tree. The trunk of the scrub oak is not | more than six inches through at the point where the rifle is imbedded, so that the stock and barrel are in com- plete view rifle is in a perfect | state of preservation. It is evident that the rifle was placed in a crotch of the tree many years ago, probably at the height at which a man would rest a gun when taking careful aim. In the course of years the tree has grown completely around the rifle, the lock being imbedded. The crotch is now about six inches above the barrel and the gun is about ten feet from the ground. Romances innumerable might be woven about the old rifle, but it stands as a memento to the develop- ment and progress that have taken place. What was a wild and unex- plored country at the time when the rifle was first placed in the crotch of the tree, with the red man monarch of all he surveyed, with scattered set- tlements of hardy pioneers already preparing to contest his supremacy, is | now dotted with farms and homes of prosperous families. GOES TO PRISON AT 81 YEARS. Dangerous Counterfeiter Is Sent to Penitentiary at Advanced Age. Philadelphia—“Old Sam” Tate, said to be the most dangerous counterfeiter in the country, has been sent to the eastern penitentiary by Judge Holland for eight years. Since 1872 Tate has spent more than half of his time in jail, and it is probable that his sentence will finish him, for he told the court yesterday that he was 81 years old. William Ingher and Charles Busramonte, who were tried with him, were sentenced to 18 months and three years re- spectively. Only last March Tate was on trial for counterfeiting, with George Ward, Michael Joyce, James Gaughan and Catherine O'Donnell, but by shrewd coaching of the other defendants Tate was acquitted. Ward, Joyce and Gaughan were sent to prison, and the O'Donnell woman, although convicted, was released in her own recognizance. Tate put up a hard fight. His coun- se] declared that he was being “sys- tematically hounded” by the secret service men; that he was a reputa- ble junk dealer and that in the course of his business he had come into pos- session of the supposed counterfeiting material found in his house by the operatives. SMOKE CAUSES SNUB NOSES. A Remarkable Indictment Against London Nuisance Drawn Up. London.—Sir William Richmond, the well-known member of the Royal academy, finds instances from unex- pected directions that drive home his arguments in his hitherto unsuccess- ful campaign against the Londoa smoke nuisance. He told his hearers that the late springs and early falls here are caused entirely by London smoke. The pallor of Londoners is also due to the same cause, for smoke excluded the sun- light and where there was no sunlight there could be no color. He went so far as to ascribe the physical defi- ciencies of the poor to his pet aver- sion. Premising that nothing could grow without light, he declared that poor girls often went toothless, while the unsightly snub noses and retreating chins so common among the poorly bred natives of London were largely due to the absence of light. ‘cov eonriensiduanpeneseereteingerenenesistonrsnsuaseatsgunitensiqueiaiethin deshipnshsiaiuseesenentatsnseeillgeastionh, ‘BABY HAS A RECORD SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL TRAVELS 200,000 MILES. Meets Pope and the President—Roose- veit Her Flowers, but Leos Reception Was Not So Eftusive. With a traveling record of 0 miles to her credit, the etrotter,” as Mii Kath- Adelia Gleuwood Moran Boston about 2 “Baby the announce- to “go to housekeep- she has traveled as much as she cares to and she now prefers to establish and remain in a home of her own. Miss Leonore fs only six years old, but she has visited more different countries and more inaccessible per- sonages than the can boast of in a lifetime. Crowned heads of Europe have recognized the little girl, she was ad- mitted to the presence of the late Pope Leo XIIL, being the only child under 12 years who was ever permit- ted an audience with his Holiness. “JT guess the pope didn’t think much about me, though,” little Miss Leo- nore admitted. “He was so old and I was so young, but I remember Presi- dent Roosevelt very well. He seemed ‘deelighted’ to see me, and gave me a bouquet of flowers from his library table and I carried them with me to have a photograph taken. We were at Glenwood Springs, Col., when he was out there on his big hunt, and our hotel was the executive headquar- ters. That is where I was born, and I think that of all the places I have ever seen I prefer Glenwood Springs | to all others. You see, part of my name is ‘Glenwood.’ “Yes, my name is rather long,” lit- tle Miss Leonore said as she sat on a chair out of all proportions to her size and chatted about herself with a newspaper representative. The name under discussion did seem burden- somely long for the delicate, dainty miss with blue eyes, who could talk with such familiarity of personages and places. “I am sometimes called ‘Miss Kath- but I much prefer ‘Miss Leo- ” she said with childish sweet- ness. While she has received unusual at- tention on account of her intelligence, the little “globetrotter” has not for- feited a winning childish manner and talks of her travels as naturally as most children talk of their toys. She has been interviewed for numerous papers and was the subject of an ar- ticle in a Tokio paper, when the only thing she was able to read was her own name. She afterward received about 50 post cards from Japanese children. Miss Leonore is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Moran, of Chicago. Mr. Moran is one of the best- known newspaper men in the weet and was one time managing editor of the Chicago Times. Like her father, the little girl inclines toward a lit- erary career. “I expect to begin to write as soon as we go to housekeeping,” she an- nounced, “that’s one reason why I think that we should settle down. I can’t do very much this way, you know. We are going to the Klondike this summer, again. Our trip up there last summer was interesting. Beauti- ful flowers grow beside the snow banks, but I feel that I have traveled enough. I want to go to Glenwood and live quietly for a change.” SPIDER WEBS FOR CUTS. Primitive Treatment Fails, However, and Receives a Black Eye. Caramba, Ila—Spider webs are still used by many persons to cure cuts. How this idea started is not known, but there are hundreds of families in this and adjoining counties that be- lieve in the cure implicitly. It is the impression that no matter how serious a fresh cut is, the appli- cation of a wad of spider webs will quickly check the flow of blood and materially aid in healing the wound. 4 common sight in farmhouses when one of the help gets a slash with the corn knife is the housewife gath- ering a bunch of cobwebs on the end of a broom and slapping them against the wound. This primitive treatment, which has been condemned by physicians, got a black eye last summer when lockjaw developed in the case of one patient who tried the web treatment,”and he died in agony. Since then the dustcovered webs have been permitted to remain on the ceilings. Museum Gets 1800 B. C. Statue. New York,—Theodore H. Davis, the archaeologist, has arrived from Bu- rope, bringing with him one of the oldest relics in the world. This is an alabaster statue of Queen Teie, a famous Egyptian, whose tomb Mr. Davis recently discovered. The statue dates from 1800 B.C. It will be pre- sented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Davis said that they worked three years excavating the tombs of the kings in Thebes, and it will be two years more before the work is completed. Publicity to End Sunday Bail. Sterling, IH.—Irate citizens of the farming community east of this city who have been waging war on Sunday ball games have decided to issue a pa- per called the Palmyra Searchlight. This paper is to contain the names of average diplomat ] all the persons who attend the games, ! DIAMONDS EK. VOIGT MANUFACTURINGJ EWELR 725 7th Street, N- rthwest BETWEEN G & H. Our stock of Jewelry and Bric-a-Brac is now complete, piece has been carefully setected and we feel satisfied that a ‘ou will bear us out that we have anywhere, Why not give us a call | Everybody has some friend whom they wish to make may be mother or father, sister or brother. It may be a wif: be a sweetheart—and no better time than Christmas is so —So suggestive. Nothing makes one feel happier than to glad heart of another. Any article that you may select will be laid aside ang when wanted. Experieneed clerks. Engraving Free of Charge. WATCHES. ‘We mention here but a few ef our specials. Gentlemen’s 20-year-Gold Filled American Stem Winders and Set- ters, $10. Ladies 20-year Gold Filled Stem Winders and Setters, $10. Gentlemen’s 14-carat Solid Gold American Stem Winders and Set- ters, as cheap as $35. Children’s Solid Silver Watches with Pin Attachment, $3.50; regu- lar price, $4.50. Ladies Solid GoldWatches, Open Face, $8.00. Boys’ Solid Silver Watches, $5 up. Put Your Money in Diamonds. No Better Investment To-Day. Prices in the Diamond market are advancing, but eur prices have net been advanced in some time. We still have a large collection of superb Diamonds which we bought a considerable time ago at lower prices than prevail today. We shall not advance prices on We are merchants and not speculators and our fair percentage of profit is all we ask. these stenes. RINGS, LOCKETS, ETC. Gents’ Solid Gold Signet Rings, $3.50 up. Ladies’ Solid Gold Signet Rings, $2.00 up. Child’s Solid Gold Signet Rings, $1.00 up. Ladies’ Solid Gold Medallion Lockets, $4.00 up. Ladies Solid Gold Crosses, $4.00 up. Gents’ Solid Gold Lockets, $4.0¢ So, as long as these Diamonds last, up. it will be possible to buy them here Ladies’ Solid Gold Bracelets, under the regular market for fine $5.00 up. stones. Ladies’ 14-Carat Gold Filled Ladies’ Diamond Rings, $5.08 to Lockets, $2.00 up. $150.00. We engrave the monograms on Ladies’ Diamond Broaches, $5.50 them in the highest style of the art. te $1,000. SILVERWARE Diamond Earrings, $15.00 te Silver Tea Sets, $10.00 up. $500.00. Silver Cake Baskets, $4.00 up. Diamond Scarf Pins, $7.00 up. Diamend Cuff Buttons, $7.00 up. Diamond Studs, $10.00 up. We have Ladies’ Handsome Dia- mond Rings set in Tiffany Mount- ing which we are selling at $30.00. This will make an appropriate pres- Every stone a ent for Christmas. ball of fire. CLOCKS AND BRONZES Clocks of all makes—American, We have a i: Clock as cheap as $5.00—must be seen to be appreciated. All Clocks French and German. kept in order for two years. Silver Cups for Children, $1.25 up. Silver Baking Dish, 7.00. Silver Butter Dishes, $3.50 up. Silver Pickie Castors, $3.00 up. The above silver is the Genuine Rogers, which speaks for itself. CATHOLIC GOODS We have the largest line of Cath- olic Goods in the city. Genuine Pearl Rosaries, 35 cents Genuine Pearl Rosaries, strung . Visit fr 1 be fy as fine a selection as car temorrow. appy. It deliv, Polite attention. _ on Fine Silver Crucifix, 75 cent mis Emerald, Sapphire, Garnet Ru- by, Jade, Turquoise, Topaz, C tal, and Coral Rosaries strung oa 14-Carat Gold-Filled C} in, $4.00 and $5.00. Wi : 4 make a handsome Christmas present Solid Gold Rosaries, Genuine Stones, $25.00 Rosaries for special devotions, viz.: Immaculate Conception, St Ann’s, St. Philomena, St. Anthony, Seven Dolors, Infant of Prague, St. Joseph, etc., with prayers elther English or German. PRAYER BOOKS High quality at low prices, auch as Key of Heaven, Manual of Pray- ers, St. Vincent's Manual, Wade Mecum, Sacred Heart, Following of Christ (by Kempis), Bibles, Oi and New Testaments, etc. We have them in cases suitable for bridal or Christmas presents. RELIGIOUS MEDAL& Religious Medals in Gold and Silver; Immaculate Conception, St. Benedict, St. Anthony, S’ />seph, Infant of Prague, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Aloysius, e*-. Eight-Day Sanctuary Oil, $1.10 per gallon. Crucifixes, hanging and standing Candle Sticks in Gold Silver, am Brass. Sacred Hearts, Solid Gold, 75 cents and $1.25. Gow HOLMES’ HOTEL, No. 333 Virginia Ave., S.W. Best Afro-American Accommoda- tion in the District. EUROPEAN AND AMERI- CAN PLAN. Good Tooms and Lodging, 50., 75c. and $1.00. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give usa Call James Otoway Holmes, Prop. Washington, D. C. Main Phone 2g1<. rh 52" — Wm.C annon, 1225 and,'1227'7th{Street, N. W. SOLE DISTRIBUTER OF OLD PURI SIM WHISKEY aa WHOLE Lif scK AND ACCIDENT INSUR- ANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK =~ 2 sVCE 28 il) eet MB PAYABLE ONE HOUS arin JEATE e@ AMERICAN HOME LERE INSURANCE CO.. METH and G Streets N. WwW. Washington, D. 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