The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-12
a Successful Business Man

"a successful Business Man
At the outset, the reader should place
himself in readiness to be introduced
to a successful man Of business in the
prime Of life. tMr. Prouty il forty.six
years oldl, whose positiveness Of pur-
pose, character and action stick out all
over him. His personality steps forth
not as that Of receptive, waitimg.list
Iingerer upon honors and benefits, but
as that Of an aggressive man of affairs
who has done things, who can do
things, and who will do things,
who has the habit of undertaking and,
best Of all, Of accomplishing tasks set
by an unrelenting master and that mas.
ter himself. A man Of the present he
is, whose blood circulates with the YER
ility Of the hour and whose activities
are all along the lines of present day
accomplishment, for, both personally and
officially, be is no unimportant factor
III the moving events which day by day
are making for buster and better Yer
mont. In q very general sense this
Is the George H. Prouty who Is a can
didate for the governorship. More
specifically he is what his neighbors
say Of him and what his record makes
him. Now, Is to what his neighbors
say
They say that his grandfather was
pioneer in the very beginnings Of
Newport, having cleared from its original
forest one Of the valuable farms on
the west shore Of Lake Memphremogog,
that both his grandfather and MS
father represented the sturdiest form
of citizenship, all Of which he has in
herited. His father had large lumber
interests and early adopted the policy Of
acquiring spruce timberland within easy
reach Of Lake Meniphremagog 50 far
as the same was available for purchase,
a policy which the subject Of this
sketch has continued.
His fathers firm bore the same name
as that now 50 well known in all lum-
Der markets, that Of Prouty 4 Miller.
AZ boy, George n. Prouty entered
the tirnas lumber camps to learn the en-
tire business from the logging stage up
ward, and soon after reaching his
majority be secured sixth interest
upon the retirement Of brother he ac-
CURED another sixth interest which
make altogether third. This has been
his holding ever since.
Meantime, he has been managing part
nef period covering nearly a quarter
81 century.
III this time the business Of Prouty
& Miller has more than quardrupled.
The firm has three mills in the vicinity
Of Newport besides large dressing
mill with Others in Canada and also
II Maine. About 300 men are in the
Arms employ, $50 Of whom are heads
Of families. Under Mr.. Prouty's man
aement his policy mas been the re-
tention Of the same men as help in eli
departments of the business as long
as possible, and many Of the men have
been with the firm for more than thirty
years. The fact that Mr.. Prouty has
nowhere any better friends or more
earnest supporters than among the EN-
ployes q his firm is very significant.
Mr. prouty's twenty-five years Of
management have been characterized By
a singular devotion 10 the duties be-
longing thereto. His practice has been
70 Be at bis Office at the same hour
BIS help reach their work-seven o'clock
n the mornine-and bis working day
has been. IS te length, not materially