St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-02-07
AS HARRIS SEES 1T
Many VermOnters Touch at Wash
ingtOn.-NO New Rural De-
livery for DanviIIe.
Washington, Feb. 5.


the northwest. Six weeks more OF
winter, when we have already eight
inches of snow and ice and sleighing
for the past month.
But a squirrel can't be kept on
the ground, and Vermont is quite
much on the map down this way, re-
CARELESS of the weather. Somebody
drifts in from up that way every
day here, and when he hits the
official or unofficial Vermont delega-
tion he is at once invited in to
thaw out and answer questions as
to the advancement of religious and
political interests up that way.
President Benton Of the Univer-
sity at Burlington was in town the
As hours from Saturday noon to
this noon, coming as The guest Of
the local alumni association of the
university and delivering the adj
dress at their annual meeting Sat
urday evening. While in town he
was the guest of Representative
Foster, who took him up to call on
the president this morning. Repre-
sentative Plumley arrives back
from Vermont today, having been
called home by the death of Editor
Whitney of Northfield.
HOStaA MaItefSs
H. G.. Blanchard has been reap
pointed postmaster at Newport, and
Miss Mary Chase at Derby Line.
The East Ryegate postal reform is
yet held up by the proposition of
the government to make the
reduction of the star route service
a condition precedent to installing
the rural delivery service. The
Il I'd in ma
but East Ryegate is sure going to
win out. Representative Prince of
Indiana is to deliver the address at
the third annual meeting of the
state bankers association at Mont
pelier, Feb. %. The petition of
Danville citizens for an additional
rural route from the Danville Office
is rejected, the department not rec
ognizing the present necessity for
such a route. This is liable to
awaken the people of the south end
of the town to agitating for the re-
establishing of the old star route
from East Barnet to Danville via
South Danville and Harvey and the
reestablishing of postofices at the
villages Of South Danville and Har-
vey. 1t is recognized that the one
present carrier cannot in reason
and under present conditions mail
for that section from the south is
a day late. With the old East
Barnet and Danville stage line, CO.
operating with the rural ser ice,
the territory south and west
of "the Green" would be fairly we'll
covered, though sections west of the
village would yet be out in the
cold
Vermont Visitors.
State Treasurer Deavitt of Mont
pelier was in town two or three
days last week on business. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Davis of Brattleboro
we're in town last week on their
way to Florida; Mr.. and Mrs. H.
G. Comings and Mr.. and Mrs. Reed
of Richford were in the city last
week on their way home from Rich
mond and other points in the vici-
nifty. Ex-senator Gorham of Bel
lows Falls has been in town, on his
way to Florida, likewise Esquire H.
d. Ryder of the same place, en- route
to Atlanta and Birmingham. w. ii.
Jeffrey of East Burke and A, e.
White of Montpelier were in the
city last week, and buoyed up the
dropping spirits of their numerous
friends. They were here as state
delegates from the Vermont Jr. o.
U. A. M. to the national convention
Of the association here.
Must Stop AdulteratiOn.
Your uncle Samuel and his pure
food sleuths are warm on the
trail of the maple sugar adulterators
and these sYindiers are dead sure
to feel something drop on them in
H,,N.v nj
drop their unholy traffic mighty
quick The government has for
some time been aware of what Yer
monters have long we'll known, that
parties up there have been and are
now engaged in buying up cheap |
grades of maple sugar and syrup,
"renovating' it and shipping it all
over the country and even abroad \
as the pure goods. DR.. Wiley says
that they can make maple sugar out
Of whatever they please and feed \
themselves on it if they want to, but
hereafter when they send a
package labeled maple sugar"
or maple syrup" out of the
state it will be instantly in
spected under the interstate COM
merce laws, and if found to contain
even five per cent. Of adulteratiOn,
whether such adulteratlon Is IN
furious or not, the whole outfit will
be seized and a fine to the extent of
the law will be slapped on the ship
per. Good! and yet good some
morei Every one of the readers of
The Caledonian knows how this
thing is done and the extent of it.
For the sake of the good name of
Vermont in general and for the pro-
lection of the splendid reputation of
pure maple sugar in particular these
swindlers should be summarily
shown up and put out of business.
They are counterfeiters of the rank
est kind, debasing the reputation of
one of our proudest products and
placing old Vermont in the Ananias
club for the sake of extracting a
few dishonest pennies from the
pockets of those who rely on the