Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-02-16


epidemic situation in that part of New
England.
Fire at MiddIebury.
During a heavy gale Tuesday morn
ing fire broke out in the business sec
ton of Middlebury and before it
could be coDtrolle d six blocks, two |
halls, a planning mill and other prop
erty were reduced to ashes. The
total loss is estimated at fully $3.50
600. The fire was the greatest that
the town has ever experienced. The
destruction of telegraph and tele-
| phone wires prevented communica-
ton outside Of town nearly all the
forenoon. The fire started at 7:05 a.
m. in he drug store of DR.. Arthur
Trunden in the Union Block, a wood
Ell structure, fully $50 feet long, on
on n Main street. The cause of the
blaze was an overheated furnace.
The town of Middlebury has a water
system costing 500, 900, and is well
equipped with bydrants. but some of
them were frozen Tuesday morning
when an effort was made to use them.
Million in Sugar.
The 10th annual meeting of the Yer
mont Maple Sugar Makers Associa-
ton opened Wednesday afternoon at
Montpelier with about 100 sugar
makers and their wives in attendance.
In the absence of MayorJ NJ. Boutwell,
3 the address of welcome was delivered
by Alderman Lester H. Greene, presi-
dent of the board of aldermen. A
s characteristic response was made by
the Hon. William Chaplin of Middle
9 sex. In closing Mr.. Chaplin referred
q to the prominent members of the
9 association who have died during the
u year, among them Alpha Messer o.
IL Rochester and w. w. Grout of Kirby
: The Hon. Victor l. Spear of Randolph
IS president of the association, next de-
livered his annual address. He sale
q the revenue to Vermont farmer'
X from maple products during the pas
% year is over $1,000, 900, more thar
ID double the amount received for the
IT wool product. Mr.. Spear emphasized
, particularly the need of producing ;
"a better quality of sugar and syrup i
~ Vermont would keep its place at tn
20 head of the procession. Onr suga
:, makers, through their own fault, re
Y. ceive Annually from one to two hun
III dred thousand dollars less for thei
'i' product than might be received for
10 first class product. In speaking Q
~ marketing products Mr.. Spear said
IL the larger part of the crop each yea
10 was made into syrup instead c
ur sugar the revenue would be at leas
% per cent. larger than it is at pres
ent. Mr.. Spear in closing gave
IN report of the market at Randolph
~, and invited members of the associi
~ ton to visit it during the comm
season. A. j. Croft of Enosbur
raj secretary of the association since
organization, gave brief review
IN the work for the past ten years. I'll
ed society was organized at Morrisvil
lot in January, 1898, during meeting
lr- the State Dairymen's Associatio
re- with the Hon. Frank Kenfield
ed, president and A. ]. Crofo as secretar
ts- It's growth ever since has be,
yns steady and healthy. 1t has ma
70. three national exhibits, at Chicag
Buffalo, and Charleston, and has do
OF more than any one agency to puri
MS maple products, and to lift Vermo
on sugar makers out of the rut liz
- which they had fallen. Mr.. Crt
" said the days of FIVE cent sugar a
TO forty-five cent syrup have gone, a
ed. he gave much of the credit for t
xa- higher prices to the maple sugar a
an syrup market at Randolph.
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