River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-09-14
IN Old Vermont.

Dear Editor:-It may be assumed
that man with Green Mountain
antecedents, like yourself, would be
t glad to hear from his native state
annually, at least. Those who are
well informed say that the inhabi-
tants of no state surpass, if indeed,
they equal the natives of Vermont
| in the interest they feel, and the
love they bear, for their native
state.
The hills and mountains, this
summer, are as green as possible
on account of abundant rains. The
charming scenery changes at every
turn of the road, and coming to be
more appreciated every year by
many visitors. AS summer re-
sort, it is gaining in popularity with
city people who flock into the state
| by thousands. Dorset, Bennington
county, is favorite haunt of artists.
In the town, the celebrated Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Prentice has a summer
home which is still occupied by her
children. She wrote Stepping
/ Heavenward and other works.
John Vance Cheney, well-known
writer, and in charge of the New
berry Library, Chicago, has a sum-
mer home in connection with his
brother, opposite that of Mrs. Prem
tice. His father owned the place
and taught singing schools in the
adjoining towns, and the writer was
his pupil through one winters les
sons.
In Dandy, Rutland county, about
three years ago, veins of unsurpass-
ed pure white marble were found,
and quantities are being shipped to
| New York city to be used in the
most noted public buildings and
private residences. The veins ex-
tend into Dorset. Some blocks of
marble, pure white, without flaw,
sixteen feet long and three feet
square, were recently shipped to be
turned into pillars for the front of a
building. The new discovery prom
Uses 20 revolutionize the marble in
dustry in this country.
4 hoe !,
home at Manchester, and the
grounds are extensive. He can open
his eyes upon Mt, Equinox or Dor
set Mountain, each being more than
thirty-eight hundred feet high and
covered with verdure to the very
top. So pure is the water that the
product of the springs of Equinox
is bottled and sold, although it does
not contain medicinal drugs like
that from Saratoga.
Dairying, the principal industry,
is very remunerative this year.
Farmers have their choice of three
markets. They may send it to a
cheese factory, to a creamery or
| ship the milk directly to Boston,
This condition is great change
from the period when our grand
mothers made, each in her own
home, the milk into cheese or but
ter, a process involving much labor
for the sturdy, willing wives and
daughters of those days. But the
telephone and the rural free delivery
are making the country homes most
delightful places OF residence.
There are extensive slate quarries
in the towns of Pawlet, Poultney,
Castleton and Granville, an adjoin-
ing town in New York, which pro-
duce red and green slate. These
are mainly worked by Welshmen
who very soon become good Ameri-
cans. They are very musical and
very religious.
In common with other parts of the
country, Vermont is awakening to
greater interest in her historical
shrines. Ethan Allen and Ann
Story were recently honored by
monuments. The latter was hero
inc in DR.. Thompson's famous his
torical novel, "The Green Mountain
Boys" There are many houses
with very small window panes and
the caves coming down to the top
/ of the window frames, sure sign
that the house has seen nearly or
quite a century. The famed eat
ables still exist and Vermont brown
bread, maple sugar and mince pies
| have not lost their charm. Indeed,
when an adopted citizen was in a
| hospital his convalesence was him
dered until he could have expressed
to him a loaf of brown bread, and
upon its receipt he begun TO mend
rapidly, and that custom so neg
1ected west and honored in Vermont,
of pie for breakfast" delights a
visitor.
Things are more permanent than
A n <<.-L