St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-03
Shelburne Creamery.

~ ~" oSlnS inNCSllSdltu. ne creamery
was established in June, 1899, and since
1t has had rapid growth and has been
paying institution. In fact it has paid
to the farmers larger prices for their milk
than any creamery could do and prosper.
In May, So cents was paid per hundred
pounds tor tour per cent. milk. In June,
W cents and in July 95 cents. These
prices were exceedingly high and are said
to be the highest ever paid in the state
by creamery. The rate should have
been between IS and rs cents per hun
dred tor four per cent. milk and as a re.
suit OF such management the creamery is
SAID to be short between $1,000 and
$4,000.
There have been over 100 patrons of
the creamery and the monthly product
OF butter has all been sold to Boston
parties tor sums varying from $4,000 to
$4,000 monthly. When the settlements
were made each month if anything was
left over the amount was credited to the
patrons tor next month and in this way
their returns became abnormal. The
dehcit was discovered short time ago
and expert accountants have been at
work on the books. The matter is not
settled yet, although it is understood the
accounts have been corrected. The
creamery will not suspend operations
but the management claim the patrons
have been overpaid in the past months
and they are withholding pay for August
milk until just accounts are adjusted.
). b. Burnham, prominent in western
Vermont, died at Rutland, Sunday
Sept. %. He was born in Manchester
SO years ago, when his father was prin-
cipal of Burr and Burton Seminary.
His sister founded the Burnham school
for girls at Northampton, Mass. He
fitted for college at Burr and Burton,
and was graduated at Middlebury Col
lege in 1858. Early in the rebellion he
enlisted in Co. E, 5th Vt. volunteers,
was elected I'd lieutenant, promoted to
captain, and participated in most of the
engagements that the command was in
until February of 49, when he resigned
on account of i'll health. From 1867 to
1869 inclusive he was secretary of civil
and military affairs under Gov. ]. B.
Page. Since about 1867 he had been at
the head OF one OF the largest insurance
agencies in Rutland county.
George c. Underhil, of Rutland, who
has returned from short trip through
England and Scotland, says: "Al the
| London papers are discussing the
threatened exhaustion of England's coal
supply. Experts says that there is only
100 years of coal in sight in England
The mine owners have already taken
advantage of the anxiety on this matter
and forced up the market price of COAL
House coal is selling for from 81 to SO
per ton in London; while the railroads
and manufacturers are paying $55 to
| Sc per ton. Five years ago the manu-
facturers were getting their coal for
$3.50"
The New York Times says in a recent
review of books of art: Edwin Asa
Dix, the author of Deacon Bradbury"
has lately been in Vermont accumula ting
impressions and material for further
work in the same New England field.
He has visited some of the old villages
and communities, away from the line of
the railroad, where the life is little
changed from that of the seventies, de-
scribed in his novel. Mr.. Dix spent
much time in Vermont at that period,
as well as before and since, so that he
knows his ground intimately.
An enthusiastic meeting OF the subscri-
bers to the Weldon House at st. Adams
project was held last Wednesday even
ing About so subscribers were in at.
tendance and great interest was display
ed 1t was decided with very little dis
cussion to form an association consisting
of 40 members to pledge themselves to
become security for a subscriber who
should take $4,000 worth of stock, which
scheme amounts to the same as subscrib-
ing 5000 per member. Before the meet
ing adjourned % names had been secur-
ed and there was no doubt of getting
the other names Immediately.
The Vermont Marble Company at
Proctor has recently made a contract
library, which Andrew Carnegie has
given to the city OF Washington. The
contract amounts to more than $780,
600. The erection of the building will
not begin until next spring, so the COM
pany has about six months to get its
contract completed. giving the workmen
steady employment during what is
usually the dull season in the winter
time.
The Baldwin Refrigerator Company,
of Burlington, has secured the contract
for furnishing 105 portable coolers, and
one large cooler in sections, for use in
the new River Bank Court building at
Cambridge, Mass. All to be cooled by
pipes leading from general refrigerating
system. The company has also received
its sixteenth consecutive order to furnish
the United States Marine hospital and
quarantine service with refrigerators.
Middlebury is having a serious time
over it's village water supply, and a
special meeting was held last week, at
which the purity Of water in the Greek
was discussed at considerable length,
after which a committee of nine citizens
were chosen to investigate the possibili-
ties of a new source of supply and report
at future meeting. 1t is feared that
several cases of illness were caused by
impurity of the present supply.
Interest in gold mining in Vermont has
been revived the past few weeks by the
work OF prospectors in Worcester, Wash
ington county. They have sampled
every sand bank and the bed of every
stream in town for evidence of gold, and
in several cases have found more than
trace. In some of the Worcester sands
there is deposit sufficient to pay a man
good days wages to pan for gold, but
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