Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-11-24
VERMONT FOUND A BETTER WAY.

N. w. Aver q Son, the large adVer-
Using house of Philadelphia, in adver-
tisement of its own business in "Prin-
tiers Ink. uses Vermont as text.
state and some of it's industries:
There seems to be multitude of
| cases to prove that Vermont has found
a way of doing things far in advance of
the average, but probably the most
unique instance was the way the Yer
monters settled upon new name for
Wlldersburg, a quarter of century
ago.
THAT name did not please the
townsfolk because it had ever sounded
uncoothly and long. SO the records
ron. Interest being about equally di-
vided between Holden and Barre
as substitute, they hit upon boxing
match as an original method of set
thing the dispute 1t so happened that
the Barre champion won and Barre
the town has been ever since, now
almost the worlds leader in the man.
afacture of granite
"Going back to the days before the
Revolution, Ethan Allen and his Green
Mountain Boys believed there was
better way than King Georges meth
cd of governing their part of the world,
and In the name of the great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress- they
proceeded to carry out their belief.
So, after quelling all sorts of internal
and external disturbances, Vermont
was the first state to be added to the
original thirteen
"1o the vast majority it never
occurs that there must be a better
way of doing most of the things
we have to do. But many of the ex-
captions to that rule have come from
Vermont
eff it had not been for Thaddeus
Fairbanks we might still be try
ing to weigh to of hay or battle
ship by the old steel yards method
Thaddeus Fairbanks went into the
hemp business in 1924 and decided that
it was a pesky nuisance to weigh all his
hemp after the manner then in vogue
So, he set out to find a better way.
Inside Of six years he had perfected
!. his platform scale and patented it..
For VIII Oh notable achievement he was
knighted by the emperor of Austria.
and now all the peoples of the earth
abide by the sta 1dard of the Fairbanks
scales of ST. Johnshury, VT.
Dean Richmond was not entirely
satisfied with the mo Re of travel which
prevailed in his early days He be ieved
there must be better way than rum
bling ponderously up hill and down
dals IN the old stage coach rolling on
; IT'S feathers. Thus the great New
York Central railroad was founded by
Dean Richmond of Vermont. where
, those first railroads followed assiduous.
ly the old, crooked Indian trails.
calvin Adams knew there must be a
better way than freight by which to
> transport packages, and the famous
express company which bears his name
i the living illustration of A!vir
5 AGams's better way.
? ''In the Industrial world there are
l.. many examples of Vermont's superior
? achievements
! "At Brattle5oro they have mas.
tered the art of making pipe organs
: the better way ans Estey organs are
- making music for AL nations.
, ''In Burlington, the Wells Richardson
} company Diamond Dyes have taught
, the women of every country better
, way to economy and good taste ir
: dress.
vermont manufacturers have eui
IDENTIFY inherited from their ances
tors the spirit which never surrende1s
2 the banner to opponent or compe titor
r They are walking awav with the colors
| many an industrial field, and the only
2 point lacking is the publicity which
t makes worldwide the story of each SUI
5 perior Vermont product
4 1--WE rise merely for a point of infor
mation-Can Advert sing Headquarters
do anything to help snread the fame o1
Vermont S better way ?''