St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-01-04
THE B:4.KYMEN's MREEIIe..

SeeEsss:.:scGstisaf.hsstate Dairy
mems ksscci:ti:n writes'.ias follows
to oallinterested:irs tse'dairy interests:
Il desire to call the attention Of
the dairymen and sugar makers, es-
pecially the younger men, of this
state. to the Importance of attending
the Forthcoming convention of both
organizations to be held in the city
of Burlington, on the 9, 10 and 11th
of January, and to bring with them
to place upon exhibition the pro-
ducts of the dairy and the sugar bush.
THE programmes are being dis
tributed and anyone not receiving
one can obtain one by applying to
me or toA. J. Croft, Enosburgh Falls,
VT. Everything on the part of the
officers of both associations will be
done to give an enjoyable time to all
that come. Railroad and hotel rates
are reasonable. There will undoubt-
edly, be the grea test display of dairy
and sugar utensils and appliances
ever seen in this state or any other
at any one time. Separators of vari-
Gus kinds will be run at the Expert
ment Station every morning and the
dairy exhibit will be at City Hall.
George A. Smith of New York, F.
E. Dawley of New York, c. l.. Cab
rilson of Iowa, D. P. Ashburn of Ne
braska, Z. c. Gilbert of Maine, Judge
Mudgett of Cambridge, VT, E. A.
Fitch, c. D. Whitman, President
Buckham of the U. V. NJ, and other
leading men of this state will be pres
ent and address the meeting"
A STURDY SPECIMEN OF ASH.
A correspondent at East St. Johns
bury sends the following in regard to
an old Vermonter and his long drive:
Last week Wednesday there drove
into our quiet village hero in home
spun He was seated in a veritablC
prairie schooner, drawn by pair Oh
nervous Indian ponies. But the
schooner had been reduced from its
| high estate. The strange ship of our
Western prairies had submitted, but
not with grace, to its new environ
ment of ice and snow, having ex
changed its high-built wheels foi-
lowly runners. Upon the canvas,
or cloth, of the schooner there was
printed this curious legend: Bishop.
| =. ASH, dSG W yeas q udlltS vi AAea~
burgh, VT, drove this team from Ore
gon to Vermont, a distance of 1900
miles, in months, crossing the
Rocky Mountains 1t was a bravG
tale briefly told. But who was 'Bish
op Ash?' A stranger, truly, in thN
lanes and by-ways of our little ham
let, but not a stranger in the bust
ling streets of many a Western city
We might not know him, but he wa
known to the reporters on the grea
dailies in the cities through which h.
had passed. The eyes of the omn-
present press run to and fro througii
the whole earth, and a gray-haire',
man, making light oil his threescoIv
years, and pushing his ponies over
the Cascade Range, the Blue Noun
tains, and the Rockies, and acros =
lonely plains and sage-bush deserts,
toward the Green Mountains of h,
native state, was bound to be discoN
cred by the newspapers. and made {.
familiar figure. His honest heroisI;,
was honored. He had been a gues
at the Worlds Fair, driving his H.,
dian ponies through the Court I
Honor and along the Midway Plai: =
ance, and he had come among us t..
tell his singular story. 1t was -
simple, modest narrative of startlin :
experience and escape. Mr.. Ash hi ;
a pamphlet descriptive of his travel
full of incident and color"