Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-23
JAMAICA,

Mr. and Mrs. e. II. Gleason have been
spending a week at w. f. Gleason's.
w c. Shields of Bombay, N. Y, one Of
the firm of the Jamaica Lumber Co., is in
town.
Mr. and Mrs George Day Of Amherst,
Mass, are visiting Mrs. Days mother
and sister at J. q. Daggetts
The Baptist church held an entertain
ment and ice cream sale at their vestry
last Friday night, which was well at
tended.
G. II. Hollenbeck, ]. S. Buchanan, f. e.
Chandler, A. V. ID. Piper and Jerry
Leahey were in camp at CIRCUITS pond in
Stratton last week.
w. f. Cutting has bought of Ed. Smith
his steam automobile, for which Mr..
Smith traded his place in West Jamaica
with John Taft last year.
The executive committee of the West
River Lumbermen's association held a
meeting at the Townshend Inn on We'd
nesday. G. II. Hollenbeck and w. c.
Shields attended from Jamaica.
A. V. D. Piper was in wardsboro Saturday
as counsel for the plaintiff in the ejectment
suit of c. ii. Jackson VS.. Frank w.
Farnum The case was settled out Of
court ]. G. Martin appeared for the
defendant.
j. G. Martin has received inquiries
from several interested parties during
the past two weeks relative to the
marble deposits on Ball mountain
He expects to have development work
started there within a short time.
w. F. Cutting has moved his mill
| from Winhall station to Pixies Falls and
will begin soon to saw out the lumber re-
| Gently bought by the Jamaica Lumber
company of the Windham Light and
| Lumber company. +. G. Hosley has the
| contract for cutting the logs and George
| Eager is doing the pilng.
| David r. Perry, the county road COM
| missioner, was in town Thursday and
| Friday inspecting the state road work.
| He expressed himself as very well pleased
| with the work being done by G. c. Allen
on the Pixies Falls road, also that of w.
| Il. Foskett on the west hill road and b.
| b. Rawson on the Winhall road.
While eXcavatlng near his barn re-
| Gently Louis Savage unearthed an old
iron cannon. The gun is about four feet
| long and of about three-inch calbre
The barrel is OF iron and two inches
| thick. The breech is partly blown OFF
evidently by an explosion Much curl
osity is aroused by an explosion. Much
| came there, as nobody in town ever re-
members of such a piece of ordinance
| having been used or buried here at any
| time.
The lumbermen have fresh grievance
| against lue west river railroad In the
new order recently issued by the Contra
| Vermont railway to the effect that in the
future the minimum charge for CARLOAD
| lots of lumber will be on the basis o.
| $4,000 pounds for a car instead of 80 600
as heretofore. "The shippers claim that 4
is impossible to get $4,000 pounds OF sof
wood lumber into the smaller Central Yer
mont and Grand Trunk cars and tina
the raising of the minimum weight 400
pounds simply means that they Will hav,
to pay for the several thousand pounds
of freight which the cars cannot hold
Some of the shippers have already begun
to refuse to load these small cars whei
shipping soft wood because of this orde
and insist that If the railroad compan
is to charge them for $4,000 pound
whether the car contains that weight o
not, they at least be given cars IL
which they can put lumber enough t
weigh up to the minimum. On the fac
of it, this would simply appear to be an
other case Of the Central Vermonts oil
policy to get something for nothing.