St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-08-03
VERMONT NEWS.
Bradsrreers Vermont weekly Trade

SaierS report CnaC business during the
month of July has been equal to that OF
a year ago. Collections generally have
been good although in some places re-
ports are received of slowness among
merchants. The manufacturers are fairly
well employed considering the time OF
the year. Copious rains during the past
week have greatly Helps she crops,
which are looking well. Lime manufac-
turing is good with a scarcity of skilled
labor reported. Granite business coz
tinues to improve and with this comes
reports from such granite towns that
business among the merchants is better.
The canning factories commenced bust.
ness this last week and report the out.
look very good for prosperous season.
At Burlington the cotton mill which has
been idle for the past two weeks resumed
work the first of the week. Retail mer.
chants report business up to what it was
year ago and generally speaking the
month of July has been prosperous one
for them. Plans are on foot for the or.
ganiZiDg of a new maple sugar industry.
At Rutland considerable business is being
done at the railroad shops; the wall
plaster company is doing well and retail
business rem aims fair.
At ST. Adams business at the lime
kilns is good though scarcity of help is
reported; retail business is a little quiet
as is expected at this time of the year,
collections fair. The scale works at St.
Johnsburv are doing a good business,
retail trade is fair, collections good; the
rains of the past week have helped the
agricultural crops. which were beginning
to feel the effects of the continued dry
spell. At Brattleboro business is re-
ported good, collections satisfactory: the
condition of the crops has been helped by
the showers of the past week. At Ben
nington the mills are fairly well employed
and retail merchants report business
during the past month equal to that of a
year ago; collections fair. At Bellows
Falls the paper mills, which have been
idle during the past two weeks on ac-
count of low water have resumed; retail
trade remaining about normal. Consid-
cradle building is being done in Mont
pelier; the granite manufacturers report
more orders received and collections fair,
retail business remaining firm; one new
granite firm has started in business
during the past week.
The granite business at Barre is gain
ing but reports are still received that
there is a scarcity of skilled labor; the
granite dealers speak more encouraging
~ of the condition of collections. At
Waterbury the wrapper factory is very
busy and recorders are coming in quite
fast, the canning factory commenced
business in canning beans the first of the
week; outlook is tor a good crop not
only Of string beans but corn as well.
The canning factory at Essex Junction
resumed work the middle of last week.
A berry canning factory is to be estab-
Hshed at Swanton and new granite
firm is also to locate inF that town. At
Windsor the manufacturers report bust
ness a little quiet although the retail
trade is good. The condition of crops in
that vicinity is excellent. At Williams
town the granite business is increasing;
condition of crops good. Middlebury
has a new barrel industry started UP
during the past week, the marble bust
ness remains about the same. The over
all factory at Newport, which has been
idle two weeks resumed business last
week.
NoxiOus Animals Killed i'm Vermont.
State Auditor Horace F. Graham, in
figures made public last week, reports
that the total returns for the year from
April 80, 1908, to April 90 1904 show
that bounties have been paid from the
state treasury on 1890 foxes, 81, $50
hedge hogs, 81 lynxes, 46 bears and so
snakes. One wolf and one panther were
killed in Addison and Franklin counties,
respectively, on which the bounties have
not been paid as yet.
Under act II of the laws of 1902 a
bounty of $12 is allowed on panthers
and wolves. The bounty on foxes is rs
cents, on hedge hogs 80 cents, on lynxes
SIS, on bears SIP and on rattle snakes ST.
According to this schedule of prices there
have been paid in bounties the past year
the following amounts: Foxes, $3735;
hedge hogs, $6467.7O; lynxes, $457;
bears, 1852; rattle snakes, $50; total,
$11, 269.7O.
For the year ending April 80, 1908.
65O7 foxes, $48S2 25; on "A lynxes,
1910; on 7196 hedge hogs, $2159.9O; on
CT bears, 1904; on III rattle snakes,
Silt. The bounty on foxes from April
80 to December IL, 1902, was 60 cents
and from the last named date to April
80, 1908, was rs cents. The law pro-
viding for the payment of hedge hog
bounties did not go into effect until
December ~, 1902, so the amount paid
in bounties on that animal for the year
ending April 80, 1908. was for only a
little more than the third of year.
The banner hedge hog raising towns
for the last year are Groton with 1897
killed and Waterbury with 37S7 killed.
Rutland county $50 foxes, % lynxes,
1898 hedge hogs, 8 bears and 4S rattle
snakes.
Seeking Out Daughters of 1Sf2.
The steadily spreading National Society
of the United States Daughters of 1912
promises to stand as foremost patriotic
society of American women. The gene
raj Society was organized in 1892 but
not until 1901 did it become national
society. At this time a charter was
granted by the United States Congress,
the second one that had ever been given
to woman's society. In June OF the
same year, Vermont became an organ
lied state, under the presidency of Mrs
C.R.F. Jenne, of Brattleboro, the ap.
pointment being made by the national
president, Mrs. William Gerry Slade of
New York city.
The objects of the society are of course,
patriotic. the date of eligibility to mem
bership is from January IA. 1874, to
March 2, 1915. The government is
modelled a 6 NEARLY aS DoSSible on that of