St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-08-17
VERMONT NEWS.
Tale Output Increasing.

Tale Output Increasing.
The New England Tale Co., has been
shipping lately an average of a carload a
day of crushed tale from their mines sit
uated on the c. o. Allen farm near the
Stockbridge and PittsheId town line.
They expect to increase their output as
fast as additional help can be secured.
The president of the company is Charles
S. Barton, of Worcester, Mass, who is
the actual head of the large machine
shops OF Rice, Barton & Fales at Wor-
cester. Mr.. Barton is looking over the
location for installing pulverizing plant
and after the same is put in the COM
pany will engage in the manufacture OF
toilet powders. The aerial railroad is
proving great success. The mines are
situated at an elevation OF several hum
dred feet above the Tweed river valley
and the aerial road covering a distance
of some 2,4O0 feet delivers the crushed
tale at the foot of the mountain at cost
OF only 3 cents per ton, while the former
cost by teaming was so cents and in ad-
dition there are no repairs to the road
and no snow to shovel in winter.
To Boom Lake memphremagog.
E. r. Whitney, who is stopping at
Magog, has taken up the matter of plac-
ing a fast running steamer on Lake
Memphremagog, to make two trips
daily, and. also, to have modern hotel,
four miles up the lake on property owned
by F. W. Wallace. He also. plans a rail-
road up Mount Oxford. Mr.. Whitney
has already seen the officials of the c. P.
R., who are much pleased with the pro-
position. 1t is quite likely the c. P. R.
will build the steamer to carry not less
than 200, and also, furnish special train
Sherhrnnka n Mnnnf Or
ford. Mr.. Whitney has already taken
the matter up with American capitalists
to build the Mount Oxford Railroad, and
has also, a frst-cl hotel man who is
anxious to build the hotel, which will be
modern and frst-class in every way,
with all conveniences connected to please
the patrons.
New State Chemist.
DR.. B. 81. Stone, who has been con-
nected with the State Laboratory of
Hygiene at Burlington for most of the
time since it was established has been
appointed director of the institution by
the state board of health, the members
of which came to investigate matters at
the laboratory. DR.. M. J. Wiltse, who
has been director since the death of DR..
]. Fl. Linsley, is retired because of his
physical inability to attend to the duties
of the laboratory. DIR. Stones appoint
ment is as yet but temporary. DR.. Stone
is a native of Jericho. He studied at
Oberlin and finished his course at the
University of Vermont. Later he en-
tered the Burlington medical college and
upon graduation was appointed on the
staff at the laboratory.
State Grange Picnic.
The state board of agriculture held
e L Il
on the shore of Lake Morey last week
Tuesday, under the auspices of Orange
County Pomona Grange. A basket
picnic interested the people until 2
O'Clock, when c. ]. Bell, chairman OF the
board and republican candidate for
governor of Vermont, called the audience
to order in the grove by the side of the
lake. l. R. Bowditch of Thetford gave
an address of welcome. Ernest Hitch
cock of Pittsford was introduced and
discussed the need of stopping. the ire
mendous waste in the present system of
road repairing and insisted upon better
legislation and larger expenditure in
behalf of good roads. He insisted that
the principal subject of legislation the
coming year in Vermont will be better
method of taxation.
The strongest address of the day was
given by Fl. o. Hadlev, master of the
New Hampshire state Grange. He advo-
Gated that the granger should be good
citizen, interested in church, school and
every other good institution. He should
be alive to newer and cheaper forms of
agriculture, to the need of honesty in
producing and marketing the best pro-
duct, and to be progressive in his pro-
fession.
E. B. Norris, master of the New York
state Grange, marked out at length the
work, the field and the source of strength
of the Grange. He paid high compli-
ment to Congressman Frank D. Currier
of New Hampshire for preparing the
only acceptable good road bill ever
before congress.
D. Fl. Morse of Randolph gave prac-
tical talk on how he had reclaimed
WORKOUT land and made it exceedingly
profitable.
The closing address was made by
George Atkins, superintendent of the
Billings farm at Woodstock, who said
that New England soil was much
younger than that of England, Japan or
China, which was made to yield far
more productivity than ours. Music
was interspersed by Densmore's orches-
ira of Hyde Park, Mass.
Examination of OMcers of ". N. G.
Col. ]. 6. Estey and Surgeon 6. r. And
erson of Brattleboro, Major FL. E. Dyer
of Rutland and Capt. G. F. Burnham OF
Burlington conducted in Brattleboro Fri
day an examination of officers elect OF
the Vermont National Guard, the follow
ing undergoing the test: Capt. Robbins,
First Lieutenant Richmond and Second
Lieutenant Davis of Company L, New
port; First Lieutenant Brown, Company
E, Barre; and Second Lieutenant Will
ard of Company M, Burlington. The
latter is a former Townshend boy.
Arrangements for the trip of the regi-
ment to Manassas in September are
nearly completed. Nearly all the men in
all the companies have secured at their
own expense the solid russell shoes which
all participants In the naueuvers must
wear. The shoes are bought through
the officers. who secured them at govern
ment cost prices.
Olive Arab uniforms have been ordered
and by the last of the month all the men
will have their new suits. In the Man
assas maneuvers the 80, 1000 men will be
divided into two armies which are to
fight the sham battle One side will