St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
VERMONT NEWS
State Concern Fined For A1isbrand-
ing Maple Syrup

to the misbranding of maple syrur
and was fined $50. This corporation
was alleged to have shipped in viola
ton of the food and drugs act, from
Vermont into the District Of Col.
umbia, a quantity of syrup labeled
Colonial Maple Syrup, prepared ex-
pressly for Woodward and Lothrop
Washington, d. c."
From analysis of sample of the
product made by the bureau of chem
istry, it did not appear to be a high
grade syrup. 1t appeared it was
syrup which had undergone fer
mentation, and had been reboiled
during which process it was burned
1t was alleged that the product was
adulterated and misbranded in that
it was not maple syrup, but by-pro-
duct known as buddy" syrup COM
posed ispart of filthy, putrid and de-
composed animal or vegetable sub
stance.
The authorities of Middlebury
college have issued bulletin giving
the address of/all the known living
graduates, and other students who
did not graduate. The total number
is. ,093 not including the class of
1913. The largest number of grad
yates was 81
A. B. Ashley, a Civil war veteran
of Brattleboro, who has been very
moody of late, and has expressed the
desire of taking his own life, was
found at the foot of Sand Hill in
Hinsdale, Sept. Is, sitting in wet
clothing. He. died Tuesday as a re-
suit of this exposure which brought
on pneumonia
About 400 delegates, with ladies
and guests attended the fifth an
nusl convention of the New England
section of the National Electric
Light association in Burlington
which began on Thursday. A. F.
Townshend of Woonsocket, R. l.,
presided. Friday the whole party
went to Bluff Point for dinner, and
Saturday visited the dam develop
ment work at Essex Junction. The
delegates are very we'll pleased with
the royal entertainment given them
by the Burlington people.
Miss Della G. Abbott and Russell
Chaisson of Rutland, who> it IS
thought went away together Sef.t
Is, have not been heard from since.
Their friends are kept in much anxi-
ETY. as no clue to their whereabouts
can be found.
Quite a disastrous, fire ragged in
Georgia Plains last Thursday eve
ming when the house and barns of
David Bevins were burned to the
ground. There was a strong south |
wind and flying pieces of burning
shingles started fires in many sur
rounding buildings. These were ex- !
tinguished however, so that the only |
loss was at the Bevins farm.
While George Dikeman of Hub
hcr in y ~<a11f
the home of his bride in the same |
town last Thursday afternoon, HIS |
steering gear broke and let his
auto over a six foot embankment,
pinning him under the car. His in |
juries are not serious but necessi-
tated the postponing of the wedding |
ceremony.
Prof. William Howard Taft, form
er president of the United States, |
will visit Rutland next month when |
he will deliver an address in conncc-
ton with the celebration of the 125th |
anniversary of the founding of the |
Second Congregational church there. |
Robert Donnelly of Barre, Julio |
Gannunzio of Webstervlle and Ray
mond Harris of Lyndonville- escaped |
from the state industrial school at |
Vergennes but were caught two days
later.
The forty-fifth annual convention |
of the Vermont Sunday school as
ISOLATION will be held at Vergennes |
Oct. 10, IA and Is. The first meet
ing will be at two p. m, Monday at |
the congregational church. The |
Tuesday session will begin at nine |
o'clock and that of Wednesday at |
8.45.
The skeleton of mastadon is
now being dug up on a farm in
Pennington, Conn. 1t is very un-
usual to find one this side of the /
Hudson river, but tusk of a fos-
sill elephant was found about 80 |
years ago on the D. S. Pratt farm in
Brattleboro. This tusk was in good |
condition and measured As inches
long, Is inches in circumference at
one end and IL inches at the other
In 1848 bones of one of these ele-
plants were unearthed at Mount
Holly. The most perfect tusk is now
in the state house in Montpelier
Prof. Agassiz of Harvard secured
a molar tooth which weighed eight
pounds and presented a grinding
surface of eight by four inches. A
plaster cast of this tooth is on ex-
hibition at Montpelier with the
tusk.
About $500 was collected in Rut-
land for the teachers retirement
fund when teachers and pupils can
vassed the town. Aside from this
amount about $500 was given the
teachers association by the Rutland
Business Mems association for it's
efforts in making a children's par
ade this year.
The Connecticut river is so low
that three machines in the plant of
the International Paper Co., Of Bel
lows Falls have had to close down.
The prolonged drought is a serious
problem.
Some time ago Herbert W.. Cox
of Rutland dreamed that his horse
was at the Paine farm some dis
lance beyond Rutland. Shortly after
that the horse disappeared and fol-
lowing the dictates of his dream Mr..
Cox found his horse at this farm
where it had wandered.
Miss Ardel1e Glasbeen of Hobo