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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
VERMONT LEADS IN ASBESTOS
OUTPUT.

Probably the majority of the people
of Vermont do moi realize that asbestos
is found and mined to any extent in
this State. and a still less number know
that such is not only the case, but that
Vermont leads every State in the union
in production of the fireproof material,
along with granite and maple products.
Some interesting statistics are given
in a pamphlet, THE Production of
Asbestos, " published by the department
of the interior, United States geological
survey.
In 1907 in the little town of Lowell,
VT, the Lowell Lumber & Ashes
tos company, now the Chrysotile AS
bestos corporation, erected a mill on the
southwestern slope of Mount Belvidere,
and the following year began opera
lions. The mill was greatly enlarged in
1911, and the output increased to its
greatest yield that year.
Owing to labor troubles and espe-
cially, it is said, to the decline of trade
in the coun tries affected by the Balkan
war, the mill shut down during part of
1912 and last year it was not operated
at all.
Figures show that the largest annual
output of asbestos was in 1911, the
banner year of the Lowell company,
when 1904 ons were valued at $119,-
935. In 1912 the output declined to
4,403 tons and continued to decline the
following year.
By these statistics it can readily be
seen that the principal output was from
Vermont, in fact about two-thirds of
the output came from this State.
However, this industry will be re-
sumed this year, according to w. G..
Gallagher, president of the Lowell com
pany, who states that the electric
power has been installed and the plant
enlarged. This work is practically com
pleted.
One of the handicaps preventing still
greater production in Vermont has been
poor facilities for shipping the product,
but this problem promises to be solved,
according to Mr.. Gallagher's state
ment.
A railroad will be built to Lowell,
either from Johnson or Morrisville and
the output, according to Mr.. Gallagher's
statement, should be enormously in
creased during the next few years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Girl Killed When Auto PIunqes
into River.

Easton, Penn, July 10. Miss Mar
garet Monahan, a young artist of this
city, was. drowned in the Delaware
canal zeal here today when an automo-
bile in which they We're riding broke
through the guard rail and plunged into
the water.
DR.. R. H. Hoey, owner of the car,
and two other men and one woman
were also thrown into the canal but es-
capped with their lives. A defective
steering gear was the cause of the ac-
cident.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
FRIDAY, JULY az, 1914.
AN PERIL.

Yesterdays Hearald contained a brief
account of a piece of brutal selfishness
and folly by a visiting automobilist in
Salisbury which ought to have been
prosecuted further.
In the fuller accounts which reached
the office yesterday, it was stated that
the offender, Harry Bloom Tor Bloom)
of New York, drove his care into A. A.
Fletcher's carriage in Salisbury, demol-
ished the vehicle and then dashed on at
full speed without waiting to see
whether he had killed the occupant or
what damage had been done.
Signalled by a deputy sheriff in Mid
dlebury, the offender sped on and was
not halted until confronted with a drawn
revolver in the hands of the pursuing
officer, who followed the miscreant
forthwith. The wreck was then settled
for and the car allowed to proceed.
Right there was where the nervy and
resolute officers of Middlebury made
their mistake. They acted with prompt
ness, spirit and courage in bringing the
offender back to settle, but the owner
of the demolished carriage was not the
only party concerned. The State of
Vermont had also an interest in him and
he should have been prosecuted to the
full extent of the law, if the published
reports of the affair are credible.
Such criminal, cowardly recklessness
as has been indicated should not be
tolerated for a moment, and a man,
Vermonter, New Yorker, or otherwise,
guilty of such callous Indifference as is
described above should have been given
the extreme penalty possible under the
statute.
No gentleman would think of dashing
on after such a serious accident, and
when the motorist demonstrated his
entire lack of a gentleman's instincts,
he should have been regarded merely as
a lawbreaker and treated accordingly.
He and his kind are a peril to the
highway and a reproach to every decent
automobilist Rutland Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
New HospitaI SUPERINTENDENT.

Burlington, July 21.-The directors of
the Mary Fletcher hospital at an adj
journed meeting yesterday afternoon
accepted the resignation of DR.. B. J.
Andrews as superintendent on account
of failing health, and appointed as his
successor DR.. T. S. Brown, secretary of
the faculty of the college of medicine
of the University of Vermont.
DR.. Andrews, who is a native of
Richmond, was graduated from the
medical college in the class of 1885,
and engaged in the general practice of
medicine in his home town, being highly
successful in his chosen profession
On February 10, 1889, he became su-
perintendent of the Mary Fletcher hos
pital and his continuous service has
thus extended over a quarter of a cen
fury, his 25th anniversary having been
observed last February.
DR.. Brown was born in Deerfeld,
N. H., May 80, 1878. He was educated
at Kimball Union academy at Meriden,
N. H., at Dartmouth college, n at
the University of Vermont, graduating
from the latter with the degree of
M. D., in 1904. In 1903 he married
Jessie Lena Baldwin of Shereham.
They have two children. He was in
structor in anatomy at the University
of Vermont from 1904 to May, 1905.
He practiced medicine at Mt. Holly
from May, 1905, to January, 1907. He
was again instructor in anatomy at the
University of Vermont from 1907 to
1911, and was instructor in histology
and embryology from 1909 to 1911. He
has been Thayer professor of anatomy
since June, 1911. He is a member of
the Burlington and C%hittenden Clinical
society and the American Medical asso-
citation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Injured by a M otoreyeIist.

Rockland, July 10. - Stepping from
behind a load of hay, Bernard Nc
Auliffe, 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John McAuliffe of North Union street.
was knocked down and run over by a
motorcycle near his home Saturday
afternoon. The boy received bruises
about his face and body and possibly in
ternal injuries.
The motorcycle was operated by Ed
ward Curtis of Pleasant street, who
was unable to stop the machine. Curtis
was thrown, but was not hurt. He
carried the boy into his home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Auto Lands in the Winooski,

Montpelier, July 20. While turning
out for a team, a roadster, driven by
w. j. Menard, Salesman for the Mar
tin l.. Hall company of Boston, who
was alone, went over a 30-foot bank
into the Winooski river above here this
afternoon. Thick bushes on the slope
kept the machine right side up and Mr..
Menard saved himself by jumping at
the waters edge. He injured his back
but not seriously. One wheel struck an
obstruction causing the machine to
skid.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
WEST BRIDPORT.

Levi Bigelow Of Port Henry was a
business visitor in town Friday.
Some of our farmers have finished
haying.
F. II. Harris was in the west part of
the town Saturday.
Walter Walker was a guest of Ashley
Dukett and wife Saturday.
Mrs. Ashley Dukett is on the sick list.
Mrs. Webster, her mother, from Hudson
Falls, is visiting her for a few days.
Merrill 7. Wolcott had a barn and five
tons of hay struck by lightning and
burned Friday.
Seth Beers of Willow Hearst was in
town Sunday.
Miss Ethel Wright of Ticonderoga was
a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Leman Wilkin-
kinson, Sunday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
OWE VERMONT FARMERS $65, 900.

Rutland, July pa financial state
ment from two of the three trustees of
the Boston Condensed Milk Company of
Boston, which was given this afternoon
before a meeting of between 80 and 40
farmers from this and Addison counties,
includes a debt of about 5000, 600 to milk
producers in New England States and
approximately S65, 600 is owed to the
farmers of Vermont. A. B. Turner and
c. B. Wilbur of Boston, representing
banking houses, together with a legal
representive met the local delegation
this afternoon and they came to Yer
mont in the hope of presenting a
proposition which will result in the
further shipment of milk. Although no
definite action was taken at the meet
ing it is not probable that the farmers
will again begin shipments, unless the
foreign company place a $4,000 bond
properly endorsed in the hands of the
secretary of State.
The farmers who conduct big diaries
and produce milk in this vicinity have
for the last number of years sold milk
to foreign companies in Boston and New
York. Recently the Boston Condensed
Milk company failed to send the monthly
checks ard the milk supply graually
dropped until on July 9 the Boston car
was discontinued.
Since that time the farmers have
been making butter, selling their milk
to the New York company or making
use of the fluid at the farm.
Mr.. Wilbur and Mr.. Turner and their
houses sold something like $500, 600
worth of stock in this company to
their clients and when the company
went wrong they offered to take up the
task of getting the concern to its feet
if such a thing is possible. They stated
today that they were serving without
compensation and were even paying
their own railroad fares. 1t was simply
an effort to make good the stock they
had sold their friends.
If the farmers start the shipment of
milk into Boston, the bankers will
guarantee the monthly payments and
they also promise to pay the back bills
out of net proceeds. When the law
went into effect calling for the bond,
this company formed the Boston Dairy
company of Vermont, and thus escaped
the filing of a bond, claiming the dairy
company was a local organization. Now
that the fall has come the farmers have
no way of forcing a collection of the
$65, 600 that is due them.
In the statement made by the trustees
Thursday afternoon they claim that the
company has assets of S125, 900 in book
accounts and such, and they also claim
assets of 5000, 600 in real estate.
Mr.. Turner and MIR Wilbur left on the
~northbound flyer. At meetings held in
Middlebury and Vergennes Thursday
night the same proposition was ad-
vanced to the farmers of that locality.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24

There may be some retailers of milk
who do not realize that there is a fed
eral law against putting any chemical
into milk to keep it sweet. and as many
more in a good many states do not
seem to appreciate the fact that most
state laws require that milk sold at
retail shall contain not less than 8 per
cent Of butter fat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. r. B. Esten, Pastor

Morning worship at 1915. Preaching
by the pastor. Subject, "A Stranger in
the Earth" Sunday school at - m.
Christian Endeavor at 6.45 p. m. Even
ing worship at 100. Pastors subject
at is Finished Welcome to all.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
CARD OF THANKS.

| wish to thank my friends for being
so thoughtful of me and the family
during my illness, also for the gift
which they sent me
CHARLES LENO.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
Auto DemoIishes Rio.

A. A. Fletcher, while driving to his
home in Salisbury Saturday afternoon,
met an automobile which ran into Mr..
Fletcher's rig and completely demolish-
ed the vehicle. Mr.. Fletcher was
thrown out but not hurt beyond a few
bruises. Deputy Sheriff Sanford tried
to stop the automobiles but they paid
no attention to him. He got into his
car and overlook them on Elm street.
They only stopped when he drew his
revolver. The car was driven by Harry
Bloom of New York. He was detained
and the matter was settled by his pay
ing $40 for the damage done.
There was another accident on the
same road later in the evening, when
an auto ran into a COW on the Columbus
Smith farm, now managed by Paul La
morder. The cows leg was broken and
the animal had to be killed. The auto
ist extinguished his tail light and
escaped in the darkness.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24
ST. STEPHENS CHURCH.
Rev. John Evans Bold, Rector.

Rectory No. 119 Main street,
1880 Holy Communion. end, 4th and
5th.I
10:45, Morning Prayer-Holy Com
munion. list and 3rd.)
1000, Sunday School.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-07-24

METHODIST CHURCH.
ID. H. Corkran, pastor.
Morning worship, 1915. Bible school
at noon. Evening worship, 80. The
Young Peoples meetings will be discon-
tinued until the autumn.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03
HELEN KELLER WILL
LECTURE HERE JAN. s

Helen Keller. who has been declared
the most wonderful being on tho
planet, w.ll conse to the Broadway
theater, Tuesday evening. Jan 10. 10
rive a lecture on "The heart and the
hand MISS KeliSr willtbe accompan-
led by her friend and teacher OF a
quarter OF century. Mrs Anne W.
Macy Mrs. Macy Will explain all OF
the PRELIMINARY stages OF Miss Keller )
development and tAen Miss Keller will
give her own remarkable message. At
the close, Miss Keller viii answer any
question asked OF her BY individual s
in the audience. Iris feat is said ~
be intensely iutero sting. for II reveals
the acuteness ard thickness OF Miss
Keller intellect and tie breadth )of
her knowledge ana culture The sale
OF seats for Miss Kellers appearance
will open In Grinnels. Thursday. Jan.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03

fydm a man and even bit con
Iemptous ANN
A baby with tiny pink hands WaV-
ing In the dawn OF a coqueuy, ana
warm little heart that called Tor love
and love and always love. nodded ana
smiled and quivered with the surge
of life and the Three Little ked
Heads" we're In OBSTACLES. The STORY
the mother told OF home that was
lost. cf a heart that was broken, OF
an ideal that was shattered. was puI
words 10 the three.
And so IL went: Soul sick ana
heart sorrowlng humanity. the good
and the bad, the unvisioned old age
and the youth. dared and dumb IN
this blow OF Fate that had st'ippeu
Romance and flung the evil .ainss
OF sin in the rosy path, one hy ons
they came. The poison breath OF
scandal. the meaning OF a spirit uh
rested, the cry for forgiveness the
echo OF the Masters words To the
Nagdalen. the blurt OF defiance, the
snarl OF anger and the whisper u
pitv made their discord and tneiI
music. and the Three Little neu
Heads" heard and did not cohpre'
bend
When their mother lett they. TOO.
Slipped along, and the dull gray OF
the court room was the sadder TOT
their going.
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03
what of the Girl Who Goes Out
In the Night and Never Returns

gets -four or olive oil and applies il to
the burn. She kisses the poor brighten.
ed baby and soothes her She does
not say.
You have burned yourself. How dis
graceful. What Will your father think?
What will the neighbors say? You
can't live 1T home any morel"
Nor does the father say when he
come shome; You have burned your.
self. You are disgraced Out OF my
house. You are nc longer child OF
minei"
Yet, later on. when that child grows
up and IL dazzlei by a greater and
more wonderful flame. when very OF
ten there Is no mother TO repeat that
warning OF early childhood, Don't do
that; you'll hurt yourself" this Is pre-
cisely what Is liable to be said:
Perhaps, you think I'm wrong; that
such things are said only In old.fash-
Toned meloaramas like Hazel Kirke" ?
Well. Magistrate Henry Herbert, sit.
ting In the Night Court for Women In
New York. told me not long ago that
many OF the girls arraIgned before him
for immoralit, owe their first descent
tAeV t'ii W tHtS 'A't Nhdl LlelT ldlntIS
had locked them out OF their homes.
The father will tell girl that II
she Is not back home by half-past ten
or eleven she need not return at all,
he said. she has, perhaps. one more
dance afte~ she realizes that II Is time
TO go. When she reaches home. the
door is locked She knocks and rings.
but no one will admit her. There Is
man with her and she sees in him
ruddenly her only refuge against the
night.
Then there is the girl whose father
or mother tells her not 20 returh home
until she has found a Job have had
such cases before me | don't say they
are typical. 6Most OF the girls. who ap-
pear In court were misled originally
by some girl friends who appealed 10
their love OF idleness and hnery. Hut
have found that when every other
appeal has failed the better nature OF
these girls can be reached by talking
20 them about their mothers. Il Is the
strongest tie in the world. Mothers
should realize the responsibility
And yet sometimes this strongest
tie in the world is not so used that II
suffces TO keep n Young difl from 20.
ing for a walk one right and never re-.
turning. And II IS not always the fault
of the girl that she does not come
back!
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03
Nv NlxoLA oREELEY.sMiTH.

ny NIxOLA GREELEY-sMiTH.-
(Copyright. 1918. by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
On day early In December OF this
year q young girl left her home In
BrOoklyn, N. r., to go for walk and
did not retarn.
Three years ago, almost to day,
young girl left her home on the upper
west side of New York city TO go for
"a walk. She, too. did not return.
The police and the newspapers all
/ over the United States are looking
saverywhere for Jessie Mccain. the lat
Tar OF the two girls to disappear. Her
|fnoo Is being flashed on the screens
| 81 knowing picture shows throughout
ftho country.
Int no one searches for the second
MI No one. not even the grtef-strick-
- rnembers OF her own family now
49, any hope that Dorothy Arnold Will
<nwne ntain be seen alive!
here IL she?
here are tn ehundreds OF other
Who, year after year, go forth
supposedly happy homes and
~ come back?
q one can answer. But In ali these
8npearnnces there Is one question
- more important than that convey
81 the word where. 1t lies in the
~ syllable why.
IN zach OF the instances ] have CIT
~ eirl came Of n weil-to-do family.
~. a Tar ~ anyone knew. there was
S ~6adow upon her life. But In the
u6o,,ds OF other similar cases the
T. c11ns are less far to seek.
< xnd yet no reason on earth snouiu
~ ~ oouate TO send a young girl out
kS6 kor home forever.
n nearly every enc of these cases
I ~ arch for the cause leads into the
4 1si7x circle and blame belongs TO the
1SfRo} and mother more than to the
|<1r1 hefpeIf We hear so much % the
~ ne child owes the parent that we
~ ~ 20 overlook the much greater
;1ion the parent should be under
# ~ fH1k about the gift OF life. We
- ll1rcn. should be grateful to
80 ave them life. But to give
IN occeptance. implies consent
3n1 does not accept life. does
&1Tn3 70 Il. Ills forced on him
1n11roly IN the hands OF those
x<<oA have summoned . new
- world whether this git
- = bDo@sfng or . curse.
- nothsr may protect her
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03

court Nof domestic relations. on Nhe
very front bench and listened wlt1
wide. gray eyes. very bright. 10 PIE
endless flow OF the testimony fach
little girl wore bright red bat. and
each little body Struggled jdto a long
blue cape. and they liste1ed with all
their might.
Near them a woman. with sin-slck
eyes and tiny lLnes OF world weari'
ness making Iblur of a smile, VAS
sitting and <he ga2ed al the children
hungfly .>Mud there was VAIN re
gret of/fhe dead past in the sorrow.
Ing Azo. The Three Little Red
IIds' gazed back and whispered o.
,r6ne another and the burden o. their
talk Was envy OF the great biack
plume that topped the picture aat
OF the woman The price she paid
for the plume they did not know. nor
did they know the same price had
bought the sin-sick eyes and the tiny
lines.
A woman with a faded sweetness
took the stand, and In low tones told
OF the other woman" OF blows, OF q
love that had faded and the cold
ashes that Knocked the altar upon
which they had burned The Three
Little Red ffeads- watched the tears
and were sorry for they knew not
what
man. broad OF shoulder and with
kindly eyes, flushed with the shame
OF the tale he told and choked with
the memory OF the days gone by
His wife had slipped away into The
lurid lit shadows of the night and a
child had called In vain for her com
ing back. The Three Little Red
Heads" were astonished at tears
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03

children fairly well physically. Does
she guard them so well morally?
Does a girl choose ever to leave q
home wherein a mother has accepted
fully her responsibility to that young
life and has undertaken TO direct It.
not by sermons and prohibitions. but
through love and sympathy and friend.
ship?
Perhaps the mother who | sa prude
is the greatest menace to the home.
! have known families wherein girls
grew up In the most dangerous ignor'
ance because Of their false modesty In
Xbich their mothers had been reared.
A mother has little baby girl who
ia attracted by the warmth and the
The Detroit times., 1914-01-03

Three Little Red-Heads" Lis
ten To Barring of Marital
Woes in Divorce Court
UNSTAINED BY FLOTSAM
OF TURBULENT STREAM
Gaze Wide-Eyed as They See
Man Weep as He Tells of
Broken Romance

= The Three Little Red Heads" saw
the deep pools and black eddies OF
life Saturday. All the sad and all
the soiled fotsam OF the turbulent
stream east It's stained foam about
them and the Three Little Red
Heads" were unsolled.
The Three Little Red Heads are
named Ethel. Grace and Marie. and
for long long time they sat in the