The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-15
With a Special Trade Mark to
Avoid imposition on Public
BY COMPETING STONES
steps Taken at Annual Meeting Of Gran
itc Manufacturers Association
Last Night-other Important
Matters Attended To.

The annual meeting Of the Barre
Granite Manufacturers association was
held last evening at their rooms in the
the members present After the reports
Of the secretary, treasurer and auditors
had been read, The officers for the ensu.
ing year were elected as follows Presi.
dent, james Adie; first vice president,
William Barclay; second vice president,
J, S. Haley Of Montpelier; treasurer,
e. A Bugbec; executive committee, ]. T.
Corskie, H. J M Jones, John Magnsghi,
i. G. Carswell. r. II. Slack, and tho
above-named four officers ex xoffieio;
auditors, A. G. Fay and William Nc.
Donald Charles H. Wishart as perma.
nent secretary Of the association was
elected some time ago. These officers
are the same as last years board, with
the exception Of William Barclay sue
eeeding Alex. Duncan as first vice presi'
dent.
The association starts out this year
IN the best condition that it has been
in since it was first organized. The meet
ing last evening was most enthusiastic
and showed that the association was
strongly united and IN shape to do bet
ter work than ever before. Many mat.
ters were discussed and the meeting was
drawn out until a late hour.
The question Of adopting a trade mark
for Barre granite, which has been under
way in the association for some time,
was brought to a head at the meeting
by the approval of a design made by
William Duff of this city, and the exec
utive committee was instructed to have
the trade mark copyrighted. The pur
pose of the trade mark is to stop the
flooding Of the market with GRANTEES
chat look like Barre granite but are,
in fact inferior to it. All Barre granite
win hereafter be labeled with the trade
mark
A lengthy discussion was also had over
plans for the instituting of q uniform
cost system and a uniform basis Of fig
uring work, and steps were taken TO
have system worked up and presented
for approval at a future meeting. 1t
was also decided to work up the eollee.
tion department In a more extensive and
substantial manner than in the past
with an idea to stopping the reckless
extension of credit that the manufactur-
/ ers have been giving the dealers. This
work viii be under the supervision of
I the permanent secretary.
Although the price OF stock is about
to 20 up and in spite Of the increased
cost of labor and living, the price OF
the manufactured granite product has
not increased correspondingly, and the
manufacturers seem to be determined
to get together and not only get better
prices for their product, but to change
i the manufacturing end Of the business
/ in general and turn out a better class
of work.
4 Invitations were received from the Re-
/ tail Marble and Granite associations OF
! Pennsylvania and Iowa for this associa.
tion to send representatives to their an
j nnal meetings, which are to be held in
January, with an exhibit of the Barre
granite The acceptance Of the invita-
tions was left with the executive board
/ After the meeting buffet lunch was en-
loved