Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-23
Sap Still Running.

Dap StiI running.
Though it is believed that the maple
sugar season is drawing to a close after
five weeks of pretty steady dripping, still
it looks in some places as il those farmers
anxious to begin spring work before the
first of May would have to take out the
spouts and plug up the holes to stop the
flow OF sap.
George c. Flint has already made over
200 gallons of syrup from 500 trees and
the end is not yet.
A. T.. Flint demonstrated the yield this
year by ten gallons, practically from two
trees; for, though he had four tapped,
two of them were nearly dead.
Willis Howard estimates the product
OF his $50 trees at not far from $50 gal
Ions, none of which has been sold for less
than s1.25 a gallon and some of it for
S1.35. His sugar has brought IA cents
pound and in fancy packages 20 cents a
pound.
G. A. Webster's sugar bush of 1900
trees has yielded at the rate of 2ls pounds
to tree, or 500 gallons of a superior arti-
Gle.
Herbert Flint has had something like
$50 gallons from 300 trees, and Perkins
Flint has made a proportionate amount
with 500 tubs set.
A dollar and s1.25 have been the ruling
prices for extra nice syrup at retail and
IA cents a pound for cake sugar. I'm the
bulk syrup has sold at prices ranging
from so to n cents a gallon, and sugar
from to IL cents pound.
III. Waite, an extensive dealer in maple
products in Morrisville, gives the News
and Citizen OF that place this view OF the
sugar situation:-
LAST year was considered good, but
this season looks to us as il it was going
to be record breaker Sugar makers
in this locality have made up to date, as
near as we can figure, 2l5 to 3 lbs. to a
tree. and with Old Mansfield all covered
with snow from one to two feet deep,
would indicate the sugar making is just
well under way. Unless we get a very
sudden change, sugaring will be good
right up to Nay 1.
..Now as to prices, that is what we are
ell Interested in and with Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and New York, as we understand
it, with more than an average crop up to
date, we look for prices at least cents
lower than last year. Furthermore, trade
conditions are not what they were year
ago. Many factories and mills closed
down, and running on short time, with
reduced wages, has and will slacken the
demand very much.
EVERY one knows that maple sugar
is luxury rather than a necessity and
ran be dispensed with il necessary. This
is the way look at the situation and
don't believe / am very far out of the
way"
Music Hall Items.
Brady & Grismer are to have four
4" Man OF the Hour companies on the
road next season. Efforts are being made
to secure one Of them here
The Vanderbilt Cup'' made the Broad
way theatre a mecca for New York's
"Four Hundred last winter. The many
catchy songs and novel dances, also the
whistling hits, caught the town.
Manager Bray of the White River rail-
way thought it not advisable to run a
special train for .The Vanderbilt Cup
owing to the unsettled condition OF the
road-bed. He has promised to join with
the Central Vermont in special trains for
the comic opera. "The Mayor OF Toxic"
coming May 13.
The much-heralded Vanderbilt Cup''
with its cast of 60 will be here tomorrow
night. In the afternoon, two of the 90
horsepower racing autos built especially
for sThe Vanderbilt Cup' races on Long
Island will be seen on the streets.
The stage settings include the lobby OF
the famous woman's hotel, the Marjorie
Wellington; a yacht club on the Atlantic
coast and Barney Oldfield's great automo-
bile race.
n. L. Booth, . Hotel Man.
Miss Clara Booth, who started for st.
Paul, Mimi, the 18th inst. is to be with
her brother and sister, H. l. and Miss
Lena Booth, in the hotel which the form
er has recently purchased at st. Paul and
of which the Twin. City Railway and Ho-
tel News of Minneapolis has the follow
ing to say
"The Kendall hotel, st. Paul, that has
been under the same management for ten
years, will change hands the first of May.
George w. Kendall, the present proprie-
tor, has sold his interest to II. L. Booth,
who for the last six years has been stew
ard and manager of the Commercial club |
of st. Paul.
"Under the present management the |
Kendall has had most enviable reputa- |
tion and has a large and very desirable |
patronage, as ii is headquarters for many |
of the Northwestern merchants visiting |
the twin cities, as well as a large number |
of shoppers who come to st. Paul to |
trade. While many of the patrons will
no doubt regret the change, they can feel
sure OF the same excellent accommodation |
and courteous treatment as heretofore, for |
Mr.. Booth is not only one OF the best
caterers in the Twin cities but is also a |
hotel man OF much experience and will
no doubt conduct the house in a capable
and satisfactory manner"
Death Of n. q. Colby.
H. b. Colby, aged SO years and
months, died last Thursday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. s. +. harrington just
across the Bethel line.
He was born in Tunbridge, Sept. s,
1924, and was the oldest in the family OF
nine children Of whom only the youngest
survives, Mrs. J. H. Spaulding OF West
McHenry, Ill. Mr.. Colby was q farmer
during the active period OF his life, near
ly all of which had been spent in Tun-
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