St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
VERMONT NEWS
Maple Sugar Makers Meeting at
Burlington Jan. and 8.

buHAlnktOn 0tlAAs anu o.
The 10th annual meeting of ,er-
mont Maple Sugar Makers associa-
ton will take pace in Burlington
January and s, Immediately pre-
ceding the annual meeting o. the
Vermont Dairymen's association
The following program has been
arranged: Tuesday, Jan. Z, two
O'Clock D. m, presidents annual ad
dress; report of secretary; Work
ing Up a Market For Our Maple
Products and the Advantages OF Be
ing Registered Under the Pure Food
and Drug Act of June 80, 1906.
THE Maple Industry of Canada"
M. F. Goddard, Waterloo, P. O.
Facts and Figures in Regard to
Maple Sugar and Syrup Production
in Vermont" Prof. G. v. Woodbury.
Norwich University, Mortified
''Some New Ideas in the Sugar
don. 1.-The Price and the Balance, !"
e. Wellman Barnard, Springfield
Tuesday evening, 7.3O O'Clock
Recent Investigations in Regard tc
Maple Sugar and Syrup Production
| in the United States, A. Hugh Bry
an, chief of sugar laboratory, De-
partment of Chemistry, Washington
ID. c.. THE Nature of Sugar Sand
a By-Product of the Maple Sugar In
| dustry and Its Possible Commercial
| Value as a Cheap Source of Malic
Acid and Derivative Products, Will
| liam H. Warren, professor of chem
| istry at Wheaton college, Norton.
| Mass. what an Association Can
Do For It's Members, Perry Walton.
| Pilgrim Publicity Association, Bos-
| ton, Mass. Wednesday morning, 8
O'Clock, business meeting for tn
| election of officers and other bust
ness. The association pays annually
over $500 in cash premiums on ex-
hibits of maple sugar and syrup.
RutIand's Big Building Boom
A half million dollars has been
spent in building in Rutland during
1912, the city having the biggest
boom in its history. This was par
| ticularly true in the residential sec
ton, 80 per cent of the whole
amount having gone for dwelling
houses. The largest houses are
those of Herman w. Vaughn of
Brooklyn, N. Y, paper manufactur-
er, 100000; Edward F. Hasey of
New York, lawyer, $4,000; George
T. Jarvis, general manager of the
Rutland railroad, $4,000; Erwin E
Keyes of Rutland, wholesale grocer
$4,000 remodeling. Over 40
! cottage houses were built. The new
temple of Cairo Temple of Mystic
Shriners cost $4,000 The F. R.
Patch Manufacturing Co. spent $15,-
600 for a new Office building and the
Howe Scale works spent $4,000 fol
additions to shops.
Secret Rooms in Old Rutland Hotel
Repairs at the Hotel Banquet at
Rutland, a hostelry alleged to be
the seat for many years of illegal
liquor traffic in Vermont, led to the
discovery of TWO secret chambers
which may explain why frequent
raIos by sherit1s in search of liquor
were unsuccessful The house has
/ been vacant for more than a year.
| Entrance to the rooms, of which the
| owner of the building, Charles p.
Harris of Rutland was ignorant,
was gained through false closet
walls which were in reality doors,
through the back of wardrobes, and
by means of hinged panels. In the
| innermost chamber, evidently used t.
mix liquor, were supposed gas pipes
leading to the floor below where they
ended at a convenient point for tap
ping. Through these pipes, it is
said the liquor was drawn when
wanted, after having been put
through a process of "doctoring" to
increase the quantity greatly. The
rooms were found after a discovery
that there was one window to be
seen from the outside of the build
ing that could not be located from
the inside.
William Wark, foreman of the
Mari and Gordon polishing mill at
Barre, died December 16 from in
juries received seven hours before.
He was moving a heavy stone wheI
the chain from which it was sus-
pended over his head snapped in two
and crushed him beneath his weight.
He was 54 years old and leaves five
children.
Harry Young of Arlington, IS
years old, was killed Dec. IA while
crawling along the track of the Rut-
land railroad seeking aid for him
self and a young woman after they
had been injured by another train.
They were driving home from a
dance, their horse became frighten
ed and ran onto a crossing, collid
ing with a train. Young was badly
injured but had crawled 200 yards
along the track when the train over
took him and the engineer could not
see him in the darkness.
William MagIveny of Bethel, sc
years old and a veteran of the Mex
lean war, died on DEC. 16. He
also served in the Civil War in the
18th Vermont and was present when
Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant
Prof. Carleton B. Stetson of the
University of Vermont died on Dec
16. He had been professor of Ian.
guage and literature for the last 10
years. He was a native of Maine and
a graduate of Colby University. He
leaves a wife and one son.
Mrs. Ella L. Pierce of Rochester
has presented the state a portrait of
the late Col. Albert Clarke of Bos-
ton. 1t was painted by Scott Car
bee of Boston and will be unveiled
soon.