davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

The text closes with the following
paragraph: This book opened with
the question, What inducements
can Vermont offer an ambitious.
wide-awake farmer to settle in the
Green Mountain Slater That por-
ton is devoted almost entirely to an
attempt to answer IL. Whether the
question has been answered satisfac-
tortly or unsatisfactory, whether
the showing made for the state Is
good, bad or Indifferent, are matters
which must be left to the Judgment
of the individual reader. A few
facts stand out SO clearly that they
cannot well be challenged. The fer
tility of the soil of Vermont is indi-
Gated by report of crop yields made
by the United States government.
covering a period of more than 40
years, which show that very few
states in the Union eqauI Vermont
In the average yield per acre or
staple crops or in the average price
received from the same. Vermont's
proximity to markets requires only
a rudimentary knowledge of geo.
graphy to demonstrate. The COM
paratively low price of Vermont
farm lands, coupled with the great
agricultural opportunities Of the
state, certainly furnish inducements
that no prospective purchaser of a
farm can afford to ignore. There is
money to be made and comfort TO
be enjoyed in farming in Vermont. !"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
A Vermont Dairy Contest

Another successful state fair has
passed into history. 1t must be con-
coded to have been a good exhibition
and a good object lesson to the farm
ers of the state 1t was a good
comparison, too, of what the best
stock raisers of Vermont and other
states are producing and the award
ing of the prizes indicates the Yer
monters stand well. We will ven
ture one suggestion for next year
and that is a state contest of Yer
mont diaries. Let a good substantial
prize be offered for the farmer in
Vermont showing the most profit per
COW in his dairy, the three leading
diaries to be shown at the fair
Such competition, if it could be
successfully inaugurated, would tend
to cause a thorough testing of the
cows of each dairy competing to
find whether or not, all were profit
able COWS, would demand more care
full records of what the dairy costs
and what it produces, would
stimulate a study of the most
profitable feeds and most profitable
methods of handling dairy products,
and this way tend to a very practical
improvement among Vermont dairy
COWS.
The task would be a complicated
one and would require considerable
time for the details to be perfected
Probably for the first year the test
could not be made for a period of
more than six months. But it would
seem to promise such valuable re-
suits as to make it worthy of con-
sideration. The real contest would
of course be at the farmers homes
but the exhibition of the winning
herds would give all farmers attend
ing the fair an opportunity to see
and study the most profitable type of
COWS and so be valuable object les
son.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
Coal and Politics

About a year ago Gov. Fletcher
appointed a commission to inves-
tigate the coal situation. This COM
mission has had a few meetings but
has made no report of findings and
the consumers do not find any relief
in the price of coal, although the
delivery is better than last year, the
railroad and coal companies being
in better shape to handle that part of
the business this season. So we fail
to notice any real results from the
state Investigations to date, further
than a political appointment for a
few of the governors friends.
The national government however
is going at the coal combination in a
different manner and has brought
suit against the companies that will
test the power of the government to
bring relief to the public. Freder-
lex R. Coudert of New York who has
the prosecution of the suit in
charge says:
The object of the present suit is
to strike at the heart of the anthra-
cite situation. If this great combina-
ton shall go unchallenged the poll
cy of Congress will have been COM
p1etely set at naught, and one COM
pany will dominate production and
transportation of anthracite. 1t is
with the object of discovering these
two competing railway systems,
Reading and Jersey Central, and of
further forcing them completely to
sever their connection with the coal
mines now wholly within their con-
troll that this suit is brought.
This suit should test the ability
of the government to cope with the
most important and powerful of
the great combinations in the neces-
stiles of life, and if contentious of
the government are upheld should
go far toward restoring conditions of
actual and potential competition in
the coal fields and among the rail-
roads.
The public will watch the progress
of this suit with great interest as it
feels it is paying too high tribute
to a combination that for years has
defied the government and ignored
the claims of the public. This seems
to be the only hope of the public as
state commissions promise little
more than titles and per diem COM
pensation from the state treasury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
Increased Cost of Living

The United States Bureau of La
Dor Statistics has given some inter
esting information in a bulletin re-
Gently published showing the in
crease in the retail prices of food.
Here are the figures:-
Comparing retail prices on June
Is, 1913, with the prices on the
same date in 1912, eleven of the if
teen articles for which quotations
are given advanced and four declined
in price.
Bacon advanced 1911 per cent;
smoked ham, 14.1 per cent; pork
chops, 1874 per cent; hens, 11.S per
cent; eggs, Ill per cent; round
steaks, 10.1 per cent; sirloin steak,
9.S per cent; lard, IL per cent; rib
roast, 6.8 per cent; butter SIS per
cent, and milk, Al per cent. Pota-
toes declined 31.9 per cent; sugar,
1872 per cent; wheat -four, II per
cent, and corn meal, SO per cent.
Comparing retail prices on June
is, 1913, with average prices for
the period 1890 to 1900 every ar
ticle, for which prices are carried,
advanced, except sugar.
Bacon advanced 1855 per cent;
pork chops, Ill per cent; round
steak, 1925 per cent; smoked hams,
"a per cent; hens, 1913 per cent; sir
loin steaks. 1872 per cent; rib roast,
rs per cent; lard, 66.5 per cent;
corn meal, 57.3 per cent; potatoes,
44.4 per cent; butter, Alb per cent;
eggs, 4O.S per cent; milk, 1874
per cent, and flour, 28.6 per cent.
Sugar declined per cent.
1t also showed the difference
in price in forty important in
dustrial centers of the coun-
try which showed Baltimore to
be one of the lowest priced cities
in the country. A comparison of
prices in Baltimore and Boston (the
city nearest to us and whose prices
are either equalled or surpassed in
this town. is of interest. The first
price for each article given first will
be for Baltimore and the second for
Boston.
Sirloin steak. 20 to "a cents per
pound, 33 to 40; round steak, 20 to
"a, 80 to So; rib roast, 16 TO %, %
to rs; chuck roast. IA to IT, Is to
IS; pork chops, IS to 20, % to %;
bacon, % to 2S, % to 30; lard IA Is
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

and practically twenty per cent on
the small country banks. This in
equality must seriously cripple the
small banks.
The currency bill as it now
stands represents construction ac-
cording to democratic ideals but it
also looms as a menace to good f.
nance. Its passage in its present
form would doubtless be followed
by a stringency and period of un.
certainty that would paralyze the
legitimate business it's friends claim
it should help.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

Judge James L. Martin of the
United States District court has de-
cided that his court has Jurisdiction
in the matter of making restrain
ing order to prevent the public SER
vice commission from carrying out a
recent order that the Rutland rail-
road should build a new station and
make other improvements at, Yer
gennes. This will be a test case of
the powers of the Vermont Public
Service commission and if the deci-
sion of the federal court is against it
the right of the public to regulate
public service corporations will be
hopelessly shattered. So the public
will be vitality interested in the pro-
gress of the case.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

to 16. Is to IT; eggs "a to %, 81
to 81; flour IA to 80, IS to $1.00;
butter, "a to AZ. 21 to 81. The only
article OF food cheaper in Boston
than in Baltimore is butter.
These figures show two things
that the cost of food in this section
is high and that the farmers of this
section have a better market than
the southern farmer. We fail to
understand why it should cost so
much more for necessities here but
it seems to be a solemn fact.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

Most of the Vermont papers will
approve of the full and fearless
statement regarding the control of
the Vermont Journal made by w.
G. Belknap, it's owner and publisher.
He says he has full control of the
paper and its policies, but H. S.
Wardner, a native of Windsor, but
now a lawyer with an Office on Wall
street in New York, is an editorial
contributor at the request of the
publisher. 1t has been charged by
other papers that the Vermont Jour
nal was controlled by Wall Street
magnates, but Mr.. Belknap's state
ment seems to refute the charge. In
vestigation would show that Yer
mont papers were never more indie
pendent than now, and we believe
the people of Vermont are not so
bidebound that editorials by an out
slider will seriously contaminate
them. On the other hand We believe
it tends to broaden the mind and in
creases information to get outside
opinions occasionally.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

The Caledonian wishes to extend
congratulations to Chief Justice
George NJ. Powers of Morrisville, to
Associate Justice William H. Taylor
of Hardwick and to Superior Judge
L. P. Slack of ST. Johnsbury- Their
appointment is a victory for ability
and merit rather than precedent and
insures a continuation of the high
place thecourts of Vermont have held
Gov. Fletcher showed creditable in
dependence and judgment in hlllng
the vacancies in the two highest
courts of Vermont.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

Local notices, wants, for sale etc.
2 cents per woId first insertion. Legal
notices 10 cents a line, three inser-
tions. Probate notices $500 each for
three insertions. Dissolution. liberia
ton and similar notices $3.50 each for
three insertions. Card of thanks, rs
cents. Obituary poetry, 10 cents a
line.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

BOston-Eagle News Co., 597 Wash
ington and 76 Summer Streets.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES & Blodgett.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post
Office as second-class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN
One year to any address. $3.50
Six months, rs
Thee months, so
Clergymen in Caledonia County, S1.OG
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE

New 40 Fl. p, 5-passenger Mitchell car
absolutely new at factory price.
We will allow any one from four to six
hundred dollars for touring car ingood
running order in exchange for the 1914
Chalmers "36," for delivery in Septem-
Der.
We have a seven passenger, six cylinder
Mitchell, good car for livery, at four
hundred dollars.
VAN NESS GARAGE,
Burlington, Vermont
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
FRANK PLUMLEY, M. G.

Foley Kidneys Pills cure obstinate
cases of kidney and bladder trouble,
rheumatism and lumbago, because
they remove the cause. You can not
take this honest curative medicine
into your system without getting the
right results. Try them. G. G.
Bingham. ADV.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

This paper is entitled to a place on
the Printers Ink Roll of Honor.
THE CALIFORNIAN co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
FOR NAVAL ACADEMY
Opportunity for Two Vermont BOYS
to Secure Appointment

70 secure appointment
Washington, d. C., Sept. 20, 1913.
The Second Congressional District
of Vermont will have two vacancies
in the Naval Academy at Annapolis
for 1914, and l am requested to pre-
sent the names of two principals and
six alternates. In order that the
young men of the district may have
each an equal opportunity to obtain
the appointment, l have arranged
with Prof. Fl. r.. Roberts, Dean Of
Norwich University, to hold a COM
petitive examination at Mortified
on November 4th and 9Th next.
Prospective candidates should adj
dress Prof. Roberts for particular
details concerning this examination.
The two candidates who pass the
best examination will be nominated
by me as principals, and the others
as alternates in the order of their
excellence. The Navy Department
will give the nominees an examina-
tion on Feb. II, 1914 or April 21st
following.
FRANK PTITMT,EY M q
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

70 Eastern Avenue. St. Johnsbury. Vt !
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

Quality is our aim.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24
A Leader in Wheat

Last year only five states, and
those in the irrigated region of the
West. raised more bushels of spring
wheat per acre than Vermont. The
average Vermont yield during the
last four years was nearly twice that
of the United States. The average
price paid in Vermont during the
last four years was more than 20
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE CALIFORNIAN COMPANY,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

space is devoted to corn, wheat. oats,
barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes,
hay, tobacco, maple sugar, apples,
small fruit and vegetables, horses,
sheep, swine, poultry, bee keeping
and forestry.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-09-24

w. }. BfgeIOvv,
Editor and Publisher. |
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20
INVESTORS KEEP CLOSE TAB
ON THE HOSTILE MEASURES

Investing interests in every sec
ton of the east are keeping close
tab on the legislatures of the various
states through bureau located in
New York which reports frequently
the character and extent of the leg
islation attempted and accomplished.
Close watch is being kept on western
states, where vast interests are af-
fected by the bills which are enacted
into laws. The investors learn daily
how legislation is providing for or
neglecting their safety. Not only is
the number and nature of the bills
carefully watched, but the manner in
which they are considered and passed
is noted.
In one of the states a banking law
was hurried through the senate in
twenty-eight minutes, and in few
hours every financial center knew of
it. In several states arrangements
are being made to initiate the exam
PIE of the legislature Of Alabama in
1910, and issue a proclamation as
surfing capital seeking Investment that
there is no hostility to honest in
seems to be taking the lead in liti-
cation hostile to capital. No less
than 1000 bills have been introduced
in the house and senate of that state
and large percentage seem to be
aimed at large employers of labor
transportation companies, already al
most profitlcss, and at future opera
tions of investors.
Capital is proverbially timid and
this year, for the first time, RECORD
is being kept of new laws in various
states that increases the timidity OF
capital. In many of the western
states half-completed enterprises are
clamoring for capital to finish prof
ects that will bring many thousands
of families within their borders, ant
the legislatures in session seem to be
doing. their best to scare away capi
lai aireaoy WiIhlH ele state' as wei
as to deter other funds from com
ing in.
Many of the states that in former
years exhibited hostility to invest
ments are modifying their most dras
tic. statutes by amendments in an eff
| fort to lure back the dollars. This i:
especially true in the southern states
where development has been retarde,
by lack of confidence necessary to at
tract money into projects which, Will
offering large returns, had larg'
element of apparent risk from hostil
legislation.-St. Louis GlobeDemo
crat.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20

A writer in the Denver & Rio
Grande Employees magazine advo-
Gates railroad cooperative store for
road men. The writer claims mer-
chants are demanding 80 per cent or
more profit and with this saved the
high cost of living will be solved. Re
Gently the rapid transit companies of
New York opened stores where en-
ployes can obtain groceries. meats
ETC.. slightly above wholesale cost.
Only certified members will be able
to purchase at the company stores
This may be one way of solving the
railroad problem of higher wages, as
employees complain that the increased
cost of living has increased faster
than the increase in wages. The rail
road companies will be able to pur-
chase food products at lowest notch
and through agencies can pick VI
snaps at certain seasons of the year
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20

In President Wilson the people look
fo~ something they have been denied
says the Atchison Globe, and here's
hoping they will get it, although the
writer is not as optimistic by any
means as a postoffice candidate. Pres
ident Wilson has inspired hope with
his deep sincerity. "God helping me, y
he said, 81 will not fail them if they
but counsel and sustain me-" That he
wants to improve conditions for the
people there isn't any doubt; that he
will be able to, remains to be seen
The proposition is so big its outcome
can't be fortold. In the meantime
clear the stage and give him trial.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20
MAIL ORDER ECONOMIES.

The Illinois legislatures investiga-
ton of vice causes has uncovered a
peculiar but quite convenient and
profitable line of business reasoning.
incidentally it shows how many things
contributed to the swollen fortunes of
"big business"
The president of one of Chicago's
great mail order houses, concern
whose business is world wide and
whose catalogues hang by, millions of
firesides and are studied more religi-
ously than the family Bible, testified
that his company had fixed wage
rate for new women employes-$5 a
week to those who live at home; SO
week to those who had no home, or
rather those who provide roof as wei
as food and clothes; the company has
4,713 female employees.
All right-so far. But here comes
the joker: "The company hires only
girls who live at home" Thus the
SIS a week minimum is the only one
in force. The SO standard is merely
theory.
Yet the latter serves well to 1gure
by. Evidently it is the recognized
difference in the cost of existence, If
yon are a woman, between living at
home-a sort of community PROPOSE
tion--and providing your own and
single domicile.
As it would cost 4,713 times So a
week to employ girls so unfortunate
as to be homeless, the company finds
it exceedingly remunerative to capi-
talize the Chicago home. The rev,
enae amounts in round numbers to
$70O,000 year, which will pay quite
few presidents and lay by neat
surplus, of which the firm already ad-
mits to be $4,000, 900.
Mind you, the home girls do just
as much work as the homeless; proba-
bly, more, because they are better fed
and housed, have fewer worries and
aie happier. Yet their easy condi-
ton makes it possible to compel them
to work for So = week less. Where
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20

The most severe blow given the IL
legal sale of liquor in the thirty year
fight between vets and drys in Kan
sas, was administered when the house
passed the Mahin bill, says the Atchi-
son Globe. The bill had already been
passed by the senate. The Mahin bill
provides for keeping down liquor ship
ments to actual users of the liquor.
Express clerks and railway employees
through whose office liquors are de-
livered, must file daily with the coun-
w clerk a list of persons who have
received liquor from him and the
amount each received. The clerk will
keep a record of these reports for the
use of the county officials who are
thus in position to know every day
who has received liquor. By the pro-
visions of the bill, Kansas takes ad-
vantage of the Webb law recently
PASSED by congress. This is the first
state to take such action. Governor
Hodges included "dry" law enforce
ment plank in his platform DURING
the campaign.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20
HERALD WANTADS BRING QUICK
RESULTS.
THE CAUSE OF RHEUMATISM.

Stomach trouble, lazy liver and de-
ranged kidneys are the cause of rheu-
matism. Get your stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels in healthy con-
dition by taking Electric Bitters, and
you will not be troubled with the
pains of rheumatism. Charles B. AL
len, school principal, at Sylvania,
Ga, who suffered indiscribable torture
from rheumatism, liver and stomach
trouble and diseased kidneys, writes:
"All remedies failed until used Elec-
trio Bitters, but four bottles of this
wonderful remedy cured me complete
ly." Maybe your rheumatic pains
come from stomach, liver and kidney
troubles. Electric Bitters will give
you prompt relief. Soc and s1.00 Rec
commended by all druggists.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20

Alvey A. Adee, who has been second
assistant secretary of state the past
thirty-three years, will be retained by
Bryan This means that the head of
the department will be fully informed
regarding the status of every foreign
government. Many assistants in other
departments will be retained-abso-
lptely necessary to the successful rum
ming of the government. While Presi-
dent Wilson has named second, third
ana fourth postmaster generals, the
main clerical force is retained and the
immense business of the department
goes on like clockwork--just as though
all the heads were in Europe.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-03-20

So far forty merchants and insur-
ance adjusters have been implicated
in Chicago's arson trust. What, with
the arson trust Investigations, police
graft Investigations, vice and depart
ment store investigations, redlight dis
trict investigations, along with nu-
merous other legislative probes, the
country is having one continual round
of pleasure and also the pleasure Of
knowing what is taking place in this
fair land of ours. Isn't 1t awful,
Mabel?