Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-03-11

during the remaining twenty-four years
Of the judges life"
Judge Harris died in STAFFORD, March
8, 1855, in the list year of his age, Ieav-
ing legacy Of $500 for town library,
for which Senator Morrill, provided a COM
mcdious building, containing a town
hall, in 1883. Judge Harris wife, to
whom he was married in 1903, was
Judith Young, daughter of Rev. Joab
Young, an eRly preacher OF universal
reconciliation. She was one Of the excel
lent Of the earth, highly respected and
loved in life, and deeply lamented at her
death in 1850.
White Cross MIX Co. on Exemption.
Boston, March ., 1909.
Mr.. Editor
We are very much interested in an arti-
Gle in your paper Of March 4 regarding
the action At the town meeting on the ex-
emption from taxes for Eve years of this
company. 1t is evident that we have
been either mistaken or misIed. We GER
tainly had the impression that a distinct
agreement had been reached with your
people that il We would locate our factory
at Randolph, your people would meet Us
with the exemption of the tax rate for
five years, and this agreement ss we en-
derstood it, had a considerable effect in
the location of our factory there.
1t appears from the article before us
that the representation was made By the
Board Of Trade and not by the selectmen.
Nevertheless, we understood that it came
from headquarters.
1t appears that at your town meeting
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the Board of Trade was not ratified and
that hereafter we are to be held for taxes
the same as others. This is q source of
great disappointment to US, naturally,
and We regret exceedingly that such is
the case.
One sentence, however, in the article
referred to attracts our attention espe-
cially, namely, that Mr.. n. L. Boyden
claimed that our company chad not been
OF the promised benefit to the town and
that We had not kept our agreements
with the farmers" We want to protest
against this statement in the most posi-
tive manner. II you could appreciate the
loss, not only in dollars, but in our gem
eral business, entailed through the failure
OF the Randolph water works and then
realize that notwithstanding this loss we
continued all of our contracts with all Of
the farmers until the expiration of the
contracts, although to do this meant that
a large proportion of the milk bought
from them was turned into the sewer. we
think you would be willing to publish
this statement in your next issue.
II we had not been handicapped by the
water supply, and il your townspeople
had done with us as they agreed to do.
or as we understood they had agreed to
do, our business in Randolph today would
be three times what it is. We want to
say positively that the injured parties in
this case are ourselves and no one else.
II anyone in your community has a
feeling that this company has not kept
its agreements with the farmers or any
one else, il be will present his grievance
at this Office, it will receive such atten-
tion as will satisfy him. We are very
proud Of one record which we have thus
far made, it is perhaps the only one, to
wit, when We make an agreement we exc
cute it.
1t may interest you personally to know
that so far from paying its stock holders
80 per cent, as you stated in the article
before Us, the stockholders are subscrib-
ing to extend this business against a
heavy loss, which loss can be largely
heOSapAS ~ the ietluHe u your Water sup
ply, for which you have given us no rec
ompense whatever, and added to this
failure, you collect taxes from us, which
on all grounds OF fairness and square
dealing, we had right to expect would
not be extorted from us.
The writer would respectfully request
that you publish this letter in your next
issue, sending him a copy.
We will also ask that Won add our
name to your list of subscribers for one
year, as we desire to keep posted on the
bIaekmail and double dealing of Ran
dolph, il any.
Yours truly,
Boston White Cross Milk Co.
Per Chas. L. PIumer. Gen. Mgr.