A sad event, which was at the same time a mighty good thing for our town, was the death of Dr. Wentworth. “Doc” Wentworth as he was known to everybody, had been here forty years. He was a big-hearted, well-meaning type of family physician, but the amount of morphine he prescribed would have disgraced Chinatown. It was his one antidote for pain and he’d give it for a toothache. He gave it to man, woman and child. Half the children in town took paregoric from the time they were born until they were old enough to take straight morphine. It was wicked. I went to one of the big medical schools and had a talk with the Dean and recommended this village as a promising field for some good young physician. The result was that a young man settled among us of whom we have grown very fond. He is with us heart and soul in preventing disease instead of fostering it. We don’t own as many automobiles as some of our neighbors, but we have some good horses--good work horses and good driving horses. I hope to see better stock every year. I’ve a two year old I wouldn’t swap to-day for the finest automobile ever manufactured. Our annual fair is developing more and more along the lines of the old-time fair. We are exhibiting more horses and cows and pigs and chickens because we have some now worth exhibiting. We have developed quite a business of selling off some of our surplus stock at this time. We find that the neighboring towns wait for this event to select their breeders. To go back to the Pioneer Products Company for a moment I may say that our business has increased steadily every year. Some things we have dropped because we find no further need of them. For instance the company owns no more breeding stock. Our more prosperous members conduct that end of the business themselves. We have, however, bought a store house. We are planning a new experiment. We found that a surprising lot of our trade was among my old Little Italy friends. They became permanent customers. As time has gone on we have also developed a regular clientele outside of these--people who know the Pioneer Products Company by name. Our scheme for next season is to put up a family hamper to be delivered regularly through the season. This will contain enough of the new vegetables to last a family a week. We divide our produce into firsts and seconds and deliver the firsts to those who can afford to pay a little more. The seconds will go mostly to Little Italy. The latter will be good vegetables--fresh and sound, differing from the firsts only in size. Burlington is to have charge of the distribution on his usual commission basis. He is our manager now, by the way, paying his salary out of his commission. This method will give us a steadier market.