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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-10-19
FRIDAY CLUBS
ANNUAL BANQUET
The Sixteenth Annual Banquet Held
Friday Evening at Carnegie Ii.
brary Club Room.
EVENING WITH SHAKESPEARE
Program Of Originality and Clever.
ness Interpreted With Classic
Music 10 Rendered.

1t has been said that real progress
lies in making each achievement su-
perior to its predecessor. If this be
true the Friday club have caught the
true progressive spirit. The sixteenth
annual banquet of this organization,
which was held in the Carnegie club
room on Friday night, is considered
by those competent to Judge in such
matters, to be one of the most COM
plete and artistic functions ever Civ
en- in Denison. The various commit
tees in charge had spared neither
time or labor in their efforts to make
the affair what it was-a splendid
success. The tables were arranged
in the form of six-pointed star, the
center of which was beautifully ap-
pointed round table having for its
center piece a revolving pedestal up
on which rested q marble bust OF
Shakespeare. The guest tables were
most artistically decorated with jac-
minot roses, graceful maiden hair
ferns and red shaded candles; for cen
terpieces each had a miniature float
representing scene from some
Shakespearian play. These floats at
tracted a great deal of attention and
displayed wonderful skill and ingen-
uity on the part of their originator.
The menu, which was altogether
delightful, was one of Mrs. Siletto's
best and elected much favorable com
ment. The favors were bon bon boxes
representing a small volume OF
Shakespeare and containing dainty
CONNECTIONS. The program, which fol
lowed the banquet and which gave
abundant evidence of the originality
and cleverness of those participating
in it, was as follows;
Toastmistress-M Carpenter
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Ed: PHELAN GETS
ANOTHER CONTRACT
Secures Contract for Fifty-six Miles
Of Railroad Work in Canada
Just Completes Big Contract
BUYS slxTY.sIx MULE TEAMS
Entire Outfit Costs $46000-Twenty.
two Hundred Tons Of Hay and
$1,000 for Groceries.

Ed Phalen, former citizen of Den
ison, came up Saturday evening from
Omaha to spend Sunday with his rela-
tives and to visit his old-time friends
Of whom he has a host in this COM
munity. His daughter, Helen, accom-
panied him and returned with her
father to Omaha on Sunday night.
Ed was always regarded as capa-
BILE fellow when he lived here, but
no one anticipated that he would be,
come the prominent man in business
that he is. For several years he has
been engaged in business as rail-
road contractor, and of late his bust.
ness has extended to all portions of
the west, and even into Canada. The
firm of Shirley & Phalen had num-
Der of large contracts in the United
States this year, but perhaps their
largest undertaking was in Canada,
where they had a contract for grading
so miles of road for the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway Co., on its line run
ming from Edmunton, the capital OF
Alberta, in a westerly course te
Prince Rupert, on the Pacific coast.
Conditions are such in that country
that material and provisions must be
moved during the winter months while
the ground is frozen, and to give some
idea of the extent of the work il
which he is engaged, we mention thu
fact that 600 teams are in use. 1t re
quired 100000 bushels of oats, costing
in the neighborhood of 35 cents pc
bushel, all of which were purchased
in Alberta and freighted across tn
country by teams during last winter
twenty-five hundred tons Of hay, cost
inssapproximately $1,000 per ton, wer
also required. About $4,000 wer
paid for groceries at one time, whicl
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"The Kingdom Of Slender Swords
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Continued on Page Four.)
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C. L. voss sold the Mitchell farm
south of West Side the fore part of
the week to C. H. Hass. There are
24O acres in the farm and it sold for
$125,OO per acre.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-10-19

............... MISS DTOOcTSc1
Vocal Sextette-Messrs. Sibbert. Nc
Connaughey, McHenry, Carpen-
ter, Kahler and VanNess.
"Hark, Hark, the Lark"-Cymbeline
Sohnets .............. Mrs. Sprecher
"All's Well That Ends Well"....
Mrs. Voss
Mrs. Carpenter fully sustained her
reputation for literary skill, mingling
wit and pathos in just the right pro-
portions as she introduced each speak.
er. From Mrs. Jones. faultless rem.
dition of Mendelssohn's midsummer
Nights Dream" to Mrs. Voss' beau
tiful finale, "All's Well That Ends
Well" there was continuous round
of well.earned applause.
Mrs. Ferguson, as president of the
club, gave most unique and enjoy.
able address, putting every one in the
best of spirits for what was to fol.
low.
Owing to a sudden bereavement
Mr.. Sims was unable to appear on the
program and while his absence was
deeply deplored, he furnished splen'
did proxy who read his manuscript
for him. Miss Garrison delighted the
audience with her singing and was
forced to give an encore. DR.. Phil
brook, in his own inimitable way, re
sponded to "The Tanning of the
Shrew," while Miss Brodersen full.
filled the scriptural injunction in pre-
senting Measure for Measure" The
vocal sextette brought down the
house and were obliged to respond tc
a curtain call. The original sonnet by
Mrs. Sprecher was most brilliant
and witty production. The closing
toast by Mrs. Voss was a fitting ending
for this most excellent program. Writ
ten in verse, it was charming wore
picture of her summer travel fillet
with tender memories of the places
visited and closed with touching al
lusion to the journey of life and
hope for joyful homecoming for III
ALL"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-10-19

Mrs. B. H. Bornholdt and daughter,
Mabel, of Charter Oak, We're guests
at the John Rowher home over Sun
day.
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Toastmistress-Mrs. Carpenter
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-10-19

Husking Mitts and sup
plies of all kinds. Our
stock is larger than ever;
mitts from SOC to $1.00 per
dozen.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-10-19

Rockford Socks, special
this week; regular $1.Oo
per dozen kind, per dozen,
only 79c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27

send its pastor and two delegates,
and every church having over 100
members may send one additional
delegate for each 100 members above
the first 100.
The railroads have granted a fare
of one and three-fifths for the round
trip. Certificates must be secured
when tickets are purchased The
subject is "The Message of the
Church to the Modern World" Adj
dresses will be given by Prof. George
G. Wilson, Phi. d., Rhode Island, the
Rev. Robert G. Seymour, d. d., Phil
adelphia, the Rev. T. b. Mower, d. D.,
Waterville, Me, the Rev. c. L. White,
ID. d., New York, Prof. David G.. Lyon,
ID. D., Cambridge, Mass, Prof j. NJ.
English, d. d., Newton, Mass, the
Rev. G. r. Cate, d. d., Rhode Island,
the Rev. II. M. Thompson, d. D., Har,-
ford, Conn, the Rev. Robert A. Ash
worth, Meriden, Conn, the Rev Ar
thur E. Hartman, Middlebury Vt,
the Rev. Thomas II. Stacy, d. d.,
Concord, ~ H., Prof. F. L. Ander-
son, d. d., Massachusetts, and Pres
ident w. H. p. Faunce, d. D., Rhode
Island.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27

there has been no real destruction of
the forests. The sew growth is re-
placing that which has been cut off
More logs are coming to the Newport
mills than for several years. They are
in fact coming in faster than the mills
can saw them. There is more lumber
about Newport thar there was ten
years ago, and this should give en-
couragement to those who believe the
forests of the State are being eter-
nally dstroyed
The industry at Newport is the larg-
est of its kind in the State, one of
the largest in New England, and in
the extent, variety and quality of its
stock is surpassed oy few in the coun-
try 1t Is operated by Vermont men
and the great bulk of its business is
done in Vermont. It's success, it's de-
velopment and it's prosperity are evil
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27

mate Newport. It's big tall chimneys
belching smoke into the clear air are
prominent landmarks. The Shrek of
saws and the rumble of machinery arc
in the air and the fresh, sweet, pun
gent smell of sawdust is prevalent.
The office of the concern is mod
est structure under the hill, but
lover of fine wood will go into ecstas-
les over the handsome material that
has been used in it's interior finish.
Business Started in 1876.
o. c. Miller the present senior part
ner, and j. A. Prouty, father of the
Governor, formed the partnership Of
Prouty and Miller in 1876. Mr.. Miller
had been the manager for d. H. and
j. c. Newton and Mr.. Prouty had been
furnishing logs to them under a con-
tract The partnership was a success
from the start, not great success at
first. The growth of the business to
it's present magnitude has been steady
anu S1duudl. nt OllSlldl pa licl .
were practical lumber men, and as
younger men have been taken in they
have been taught the practical end Of
the business. There are no ornamen-
tai partners and no oilers.
They built a mill at Ralston Falls,
Que, in 1880 and ran it for 10 years,
the last ten under the management of
II. H. Prouty. The mill was then sold.
Gov. PrOuty's Start.
G. H. Prouty, Bert the present
Governor, having finished his business
education, was sent to Knowlton, Que,
in 1881, to acquire practical expert
ence in the management of the mill
there. In 1886 he and H. H., his
brother, were admitted to partnership
in the firm, but the latter only re-
manned two years. He sold his inter-
est to his brother and in 1887 went
to Portland, Ore.
J. A. Prouty died in 1900, but two
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27
DIR. ID. h. PEARSONS' PEAN.
Says He VIII Give Away Every Cent
Before He Dies.

After having given more than ST.
100000 to various struggling colleges
in many parts of the country DR.. d.
X. Pearsons, a retired capitalist, now
nearly ninety years old, has reiter-
ated his intention of giving away
every cent he possesses before he
dies.
81 am having more fun than any
other millionaire alive" he said.
Let other rich men go in for auto
mobiles and steam yachts. | have
discovered, after endowing forty
seven colleges in tweny-four States,
that giving is the most exquisite OF
all mundane delights. On my ninetieth
birthday, on April IA, l am going to
have squaring up with all tho
small colleges l have promised money
to, and | serve notice now that be-
ginning then | am going on new
rampage of giving. 81 intend to die
penniless. If there are any other
millionaires who want to have a lot
of fun let them follow my example"
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Amendment by Dillingham;.

Washington Jan. Ex-senator Die
bingham, chairman of the Immigra-
ton Commission has offered an am
endment to the urgency deficiency
bill, carrying the $125,0O0 stricken
out by the House for continuing the
work of the commission, but provid-
ing that none of the money shall BE-
spent for salaries of commissioners
after March /, and that the commits
sion must conclude its work and
make a final report to Congress by
December next
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27

Thirty million feet of dressed lum-
Der. That is the yearly output of the
Prouty & Miller mills at Newport, the
mills in which Governor Prouty is one
of Ne managing partners.
It would be a nice sum for the
first class in arithmetic to find how
much of the earth's surface could be
covered with this amount if spread
out in single boards, how many side
walks it would build to San Francis
co, how near it would come to reach
ing the moon if the boards were plac-
ed end to end, how many cars would be
required to transport it, how long a
train these cars would make, or how
much breakfast food could be pre-
pared from the shavings and sawdust
produced in the process of manufac-
ture.
To produce this amount three great
mills are tearing their shrieking way
through piles of lumber at Newport,
another mill in Canada is levying on
a twenty mile concession, and still an
other in Maine is stripping the spruce
from an entire township Three hun
dred men, with horses and oxen, are
making the woods ring with the
strokes of their axes and three hun
bred more are guiding the logs on
their divisional way through the mills,
past big circular saws with teeth as
large as the palm of ones hand,
through gangs of smaller but no less
voracious circles of cleaning steel,
past buffers and edgers that take their
toll of worthless lumber, over planners
that take the thinnrst possible toll of
shaving that will smooth the board
sufficiently for the market, and again
into the outer air, barked, stripped,
split, sawn, torn, transformed, to be
piled up under the seasoning influ-
ences of air and sunlight.
This lumber industry seems to dom
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any other producer. Thus the mana
ger of the Brockton yard is continu-
ally on his mettle, not mere routine
clerk for Newport lumber company,
and his monthly check to the firm is
the evidence of the manner in which
charge. There is kept on hand at the
Brockton yard something like 12,0O0,-
600 feet of dressed lumber in a great
variety of lengths and sizes, all of high
grade. The product of the Prouty and
Miller mills and the stuff handled at
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A BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

New England Gathering to BE Held
in Boston Feb. , and 3-The Pro-
gram.
The second New England Baptist
Conference will be held in Ford Hall,
Boston, February and 8. 1t is a
gathering of the representatives of
the Baptist and Free Baptist Church.
es of New England, to develop and
give expression to new denomina-
tional consciousness, to consider the
pressing religious problems of New
England, and to devise solutions
thereof.
Every Baptist and Free Baptist
Church in New England in entitled to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27

dence of the great resources that still
remain to Vermont, the opportunity
for the intelligent employment of cap
ital, and also of the capacity of Ver-
mont men for the intelligent and sue
cessful development of the opportuni-
ties that lie at their own doors.
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years before that his sons, e. j., and
W. r., had succeeded to his share in
the business.
In 1892 the firm took an important
step, buying the yards of the Taunton
Lumber company at Taunton and
Brockton, Mass. They later sold the
yard at Taunton, but still operate that
at Brockton and a smaller yard at
Holyoke. This gave them direct op.
portunity for disposing of the prod
uct of their mills.
Canadian Timber Land Bought.
The next important move was the
purchase of a large mill at Victor,
Que, and what is known as a govern
ment limit, or about twenty miles of
timber land, on which they have been
operating ever since. The growth on
this land is Quebec spruce and lum-
Der sawn from that is more valuable
than that from any other variety of
spruce. The land has of course been
wei cut ONtI ny JllS llhlSs DuC LhOi =
is still remaining enough timber to
keep their mill in operation, though
it is only run in summer.
In 1903 they bought out the Crock
erton Lumber Company at Bigelow,
Me-, and an entire township of tim
Der land. The product of this mill is
h,tt haf 10
taken in the rough to the mill at
Newport and dressed there.
In addition to the product of it's
own mills the firm has had the entire
cut of the big Megantic mills for the
last eight or ten years.
Large Timber Holdings.
In addition to these holdings the
company has tracts of timber land in
different places aside from what it
owns about the shores of Lake Mem
phremagog. The principal supply of
logs for the Newport mills is the ter
the cut averages from 100000 to y
100000 feet a year. The principal
business, however, is dressing rough
lumber, bought in Canada or produc-
ed at their own Canadian mill, and
sending it on to the market. Their
product of dressed lumber averages
from 25,OOO,OOO to 3O,O0O,00O feet ev-
cry year.
The big mills at Newport give en-
ployment to $50 men but only two of
them are operated in winter. The mill
at Victor keeps 80 men busy and that
at Bigelow IS, and are operated only
in summer The company does not
cut it's own logs, but has that done
by contract, and there are now at work
for contractors under them some 800
men, while many more are cutting
their own lumber to be sold to the
company.
Business mt BrOcktOn.
The yard at Brockton is not SELL
ing agency for Prouty & Miller. 1t is
managed as an Independent institu-
ton, buying lumber wherever it can
to the best advantage and buying from
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-27
BIG LUMBER INDUSTRY.
Business of Prouty & Miller Largest of
Its Kind in the State
100000 Fl. EACH YEAR

Hundreds of Men Employed by Newport Company
Holdings of Timber Land in Canada and Name Big
Yard at Brockton, MassFacory Floor Pine Specially
Increase in Cost of Lumber More Growing Timber
in Vicinity of Newport Than There Was Ten Years Ago.
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concern several thousand dollars a
year.
But one important factor in the sue
cess of the concern is the fact that
the partners are practical men and
active workers. Mr.. Miller, the senior
partner, considerably past middle age,
is in attendance at the office and at
the mills every day The Governor is
prompt and regular in his attendance
at these two points and his brothers
have their practical duties of super
vision and direction. Governor Prouty
is just as keen and active and inter
ested a business man as if he had new
err occupied the chair of chief eXecu-
tive or held seat in the State Legis-
lature. There are no superintendent
or managers at the Newport mills.
The partners look after the manage
ment themselves, leaving only details
to the care of a foreman. w. l.. Brown
is manager of the mill at Bigelow, Me-,
and e. A. Johnson at Victor, Que, but
one of the partners is likely to drop
in their at any time to learn from
practical, personal observation, how
things are going. That is, to sum up
the matter briefly, it is a working
partnership of practical men, with not
case of swelled head in the lot,
and probably the partners are as
proud of the fact that George Herbert
is Governor of Vermont as he is of
holding the position.
Cost of Lumber Increases.
The lumber business has been pros
porous in recent years. The price of
lumber has advanced at a marvellous
rate. Mr.. Miller remembers when, not
many years ago, he was receiver for
a bankrupt concern in Portland, Me-,
he sold hemlock boards for $3.50 a
thousand, and the directors urged him
to sell for less price than that when
he had an offer. Today that same
quality of boards is worth $3.50 any
where in the market. But this in
crease in price has not all been for
the benefit of the manufacturer. The
price of logs has doubled in ten years,
The cost of manufacture has increas-
ed so per cent, and the cost of getting
the logs off the land has increased in
about the same proportion. The mill
owners and manufacturers have gain
ed by maintaining their percentage of
profit on the increased prices, but not
all the increase in price has been di-
rected toward the treasury of the
manufacturers of lumber. Fires too
have caused serious loss on the firm
timber lands in Maine and Canada.
Even where fire has run under the
surface and has not burned the trees.
it has loosened their grip on the earth
so they have fallen and it has been
more expensive to get them out of the
woods to the mill.
Conservation OF Forests.
The lands in Canada and in Maine
have been quite thoroughly cut over
but it is interesting to know that about
the shores of Lake Memphremagog
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their Brockton yards is all of high
grade and they carry so large an as
sortment and variety that purchasers
often have to buy there at a higher
price than the regular market rate
because they have the assortment
from which to select and because the
high grade of their stuff enables them
to mark up prices little.
An example of this is factory floor
pine This is what the ordinary man
would call pine plank. 1t is used
for the flooring of factories and 9TH
err big buildings not of fireproof con-
struction. Mr.. Miller was the first
man to butt this kind of lumber to ex-
act lengths, and the first output of his
mill went into the factory of the Morse
Screw Company at Holyoke, Mass.
They frequently have 100000 feet
of that kind of stock on hand. There
is not a large and steady demand for
that kind of stock and of course they
get their price for it. 1t is doubtful
is there is another lumber concern
that can fill an order for factory floor
pine so readily as Prouty and Miller.
Improved Machinery Used.
All the improved machinery that
will effect economies is in use in the
Prouty and Miller mills. The pur-
chase of a new planer, differing from
that in general use, so far as the or
binary man can see, only in having
knives little thinner, is saving the
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Business mt BrOcktOn.

The yard at Brockton is not a SELL
ing agency for Prouty & Miller. 1t is
managed as an Independent institu-
ton, buying lumber wherever it can
to the best advantage and buying from
PrOuty & Miller as closely as from
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Conservation OF Forests.

The lands in Canada and in Maine
have been quite thoroughly cut over
but it is interesting to know that about
the shores of Lake Memphremagos
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-09

could do. We don't of that sort working
for us, and If that thing happened with the oldest
conductor on our line he'd go just quick as Con-
molly went
There are two sides to every question and no
one knows better than know the problems that Que
men face every hour that they are at work 1t Is
n hard irritating. nervous business, matter on
winch platform OF surface the man IN COM
panyS uniform stands. But that Is one of the
dltions Of the business, man understands that
condition when be goes to work for us, and there Is
no excuse whatsoever for any inclvity on his part
I'VE invite complaints of such cases as these.
People should not take out their feelings against
road or its officers upon the conductor. who Is not
responsible and has his own troubles"
Ihe railroad courts are just and their decisions
are rarely ever reversed Compliments are promptly
notified If the decision goes against the railroader
that the offending empoye has been disciplined or
discharged The penalty depends as in other courts
upon the enoImty of the offence and upon the mans
previous TecordIs ,.. t.., ,,. l. :. .se2 -f. :
That record Is kept In systematic fashion In thes"
days of scientific railroad methods 1ttehsr Of all
the violations that have been lodged against the
enploye. In the old days of street railroadlng In
thlS town the system of discipline short OF discharge
was not fnlr TO the empoye 1t generally consisted
IN suspendlng man against whom complaint had
been proven for from day to a fortnight The
suspension meant n curtument of pay and some
umcs the mars family went without food That
was 30 obvious an injustice to demand rectifying