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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21
McINDOE FALLS

Ct. D. Nichols, Correspondent
The annual meeting of the Ladies'
Aid was held Wednesday afternoon at
the vestry. The following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. d. NJ.
Nichols; vice-president, Miss Seraph
Bliss; secretary and treasurer, Miss
Alice Phelps; executive committee,
Mrs. Nettie Smith, Mrs. Blanche
Chase and Miss Alice Bliss; work
committee, Mrs. Henry Bell, Mrs. J.
M. Gibson, Mrs. Lydia Kimban and
Mrs. A. M. Bedell. The receipts of
the society the past year amounted
to about 1854. After the business
meeting a social hour was enjoyed
and a bountiful supper served TO all
by Mrs. Nellie Liddle, Miss Alice
Bliss and Miss Lucy Buffum.
Miss Julia Smith was the guest of
the Beattie girls the first Of the week.
Mrs. ]. G. Smith visited at Clar-
ence BedelPs at East Ryegate last
Monday.
this week at Lyndonville. Miss
Gladys Van Dyke is one of the grad
yates at Lyndon Institute.
Mr. and Mrs. r. NJ. Johnson visited
at James Johnson's at Newbury last
Tuesday.
Miss Alice Moore of Barre, VT, is
at her home here for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Phelps and two
children, also Miss Frances Berry of
Meredith spent the day Thursday at
w. M. Phelps.
Mrs. Charles Chase is quite sick.
Mrs. Jack Winchester and two
children visited at Walter SINNERS
at East Ryegate Wednesday.
Miss Arlene Thurston of Walden
was the guest of Mrs. Blanche Chase
the first of the week.
Mrs. Henry Kellogg visited at
Horace Chamberlin's at Ryegate
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fay Blake of Brad
ford were in town on business We'd
nesday.
All are glad to hear that Mrs. M.
E. Turner is receiving help at the
private sanatorium at st. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21

with an interesting and appropriate
poem by Ethel w. Chapman. A brief
business meeting was held, at which
the following were elected officers of
Willis Corner: vice-president w. E.
Riley; secretary and treasurer, Susan
B. Cunningham; orator. Ora Gray;
poet, Dorothy Macdonald.
After the close of school on Friday
most of the teachers and students
left town for their various homes.
-Some Of the teachers have chosen
other paths in life and will not re-
turn, among them Miss Daur, Miss
Packard, Miss Rhodes. and Miss EVE
Eastman. The new teachers elected
are as follows: Albert d. Lawton of
Chester, a Dartmouth graduate, who
is to teach mathmatics and physics;
Misses Myrtle B. Hill and Dorothy
Boyes, Middlebury graduates, who
teach respectively English, German
and French; Miss Mabel Hayes, a re-
cent teacher in Hanover, N. H, who
takes the commercial work. There is
also to be a new teacher of Domestic
Science, who is not yet elected.
Mrs. Fannie Giffin spent Sunday
with her daughter, Mrs. Jones, in
Sheffield.
Elmer Cutting Hughes. a graduate
of the. New Hampshire College of
Agriculture, has come here to act as
manager of the greenhouse at Speed
well Farms. His brother, Bert
Hughes, is to work on the estate.
Mrs. Orson Trip of Springfield, a
former teacher in town when she was
Miss Gladys Trotter, has been spend
ing a week with her sister, Mrs
James Dexter. Mr.. Trip Joined her
here and spent the weekend at the
Dexters'
There was an immense crowd at
the station Friday afternoon when ex-
President Taft's train arrived, the
band was in attendance, played sew
eral selections and all endeavored to
show their appreciation of the honor
of his visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Ferguson
have gone to Middlet ury, where they
will attend the exercises of COM
mencement week at the college. The |
graduating exercises take place We'd
nesday, at which time their son, Phil |
lip S. Ferguson, will receive his di-
ploma:
Maurice J. Seligman, the barber in
the new block, has bought from the |
Methodist society the house on Pros
pect street used as a parsonage, and
taken possession. He will occupy it |
himself as soon as the Rev. and Mrs. !
Moore find a suitable location.
Charles L. Stuart and j. G. Eaton |
have returned from Winnipeg, Man,
where they went to inspect a new
plant of the Canadian Carbonate |
Company.
Miss Lora Watchie was at home |
over Sunday from her work in Mont
pelier.
DR.. and Mrs. Ralph Dodge and
daughters, Theresa and Louise, came |
from Hyde Park in their car Satur- I
day, and will remain here for a few
weeks, dividing their time between |
the Dodges and Stuarts.
Sibyl Barber went to Woodsville, N. |
H, Sunday to spend a few weeks |
with her aunt.
Mrs. Emily woodward and her |
Miss Doris Colby, go
this week to WeIlsville, Ohio, where |
they will spend 8 part of the summer
vacation with DR.. and. Mrs. Cleon /
Colby.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21
Flag Day Almost Forgotten.

The 14th of June is observed as flag
day to a greater or less degree in
every state in the union. But the OBJ
servance of flag day in st. Johnsbury
was very conspicuous owing to the
absence of flags.
With the exception of public build
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21
ONE COW BROUGHT $3.50.
Queen Lady of the HOlstein Lot
Rrn ffIaInnrsn

Brattleboro, June 14.-At a sale of
blooded Holsteins on the Valley Fair
grounds here yesterday "a animals
sold for $11.52O, an average price per
head of $3.50. The top price paid was
$3.50 for a five-year-old COW from the
Mt. Hermon school herd, Aggie Grace
Creamelle 152369 She was purchas
ed by F. H. Metcalf Of Holyoke. Mass,
who also secured three Others the to-
tai for the four being $1,235.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21
BEST FOR BILIOUS HEADACHE

Indigestion quickly develops SICK
headache. bflfousness, bloating, sour
stomach, gas on stomach, bad breath
or some of the other conditions caused
by clogged or irregular bowels. II you
have any of these symptoms, take a
Foley Cathartic Tablet this evening
and you will feel better in the morn
ing. w. B. Vandigrift, Smyrna, Ga,
says: 1--WE find Foley Cathartic Tab
lets the best we have ever used for
bilious headaches and 1 am praising
them up to all my friends" c. c.
BINGHAM
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-21

ings where the unfurling of the flag
is compulsory the stars and stripes
were neglected in town except for
few rare instances.
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"You are fred Get mel You are fired Clear out now"

aire, glowing from his invigorating
walk had thrown off his street garb and
appeared in Blanchard's private office.
Whats the troube?" said Monte, tn-
rufTled, become accustomed TO such out
bursts from the mill boss.
"He wants me to get up full report
upon machinery safeguards. These
safety.flrst frills give me pain. Damn
nonsense! Next thing you know An.
drews will want me to lock up the mill
machinery in the officA safe and produce
the fabric through the combination"
1t was rough joke, and Monte did
not laugh at the wit. For an instant he
forgot himself and the role he was play
ing. The coarse remark sent an ex-
preston of his true feelings along his
brow in an unmistakable scowl. Blan-
chard saw the burrows and broke into a
tempest of words.
"If this nagging from downtown keeps
up / am going to quit the Big Four"
he snorted.
The Crispen mills were locally known
as the Big Four for the reason that
under separate roofs they embraced four
branches of textile manufacture, wool
ems and worsteds. carpets, laces and knit
goods. Each branch had a separate
superintendent, but all four were under
the direction of Blanchard, who stormed
on:
Things have come to a pretty rotten
pass in the country when legislatures
and society women tell us mill bosses
how to treat our hands. I am against
all this fancy regulation-workingm
compensation, child labor regulation.
shorter hours of employment. Tomfool-
cry! 1t amt constitutional and it puts
crazy ideas in the workers heads!'
"Yet the majority of the big mill own
ers favor these reforms and say they
are wise, humane and will ultimately
stimulate production" protested Monte.
1t was out of his mouth before he re-
fiected that it was his first frank ex-
preston of an opinion in the presence
of the garrulous mill boss.
"a lot of sniveling weak sisters
call them," roared Blanchard. IF the
last mill owner in Kensington knuckled
1 would still stick to my principles"
How do you make them out prin-
ciples?" insisted Monte, and so annoyed
was he at the ase-hardened egotism of
the man he added: II should call them
prejudices."
Blanchard squared around on him. He
said:
you and me might as well under
stand each other now. Ever since you
poked your amateur nose and banjo
eyed goggles into the Big Four there
has been nothing but kicks from DOWN
town. have my opinion of sneaks,
and"
stop right there Blanchard" broke
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CHAPTER "
Think, Then Act

r'unnier things have happened per-
haps in books. thought Monte Crispen
that night, but never before had a cir
cumstance so rich in humor occurred
in real life. He was sure of that. Fired!
Of course, he might have torn aside
his mask as "NTr. Taller, business ex-
pert" revealed himself ng Crispen. the
heir, and sharply turned the tables on
Blanchard, the wrong-headed mill boss.
But such a triumph would have been
a temporary one only, and measured
defeat to the whole purpose of his com.
ing disguised to the Kensington dis
trict.
Looking back at events of the day,
Monte marveled Nat his own sang froid
when Blanchard threatened to sum-
mon the gatemen and have him fed
to the cobblestones. He complacently
approved of the grand air with which
he had bowed low at the sputterng mill
boss. and then walked out of the build
ing, head erect. crowned martyr in
the eyes of scared stenographers, clerks
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in Monte. you have no right to address
me in such manner. was put here
by Mr.. Andrews for a distinct purpose
and if you want to get nasty l would
advise you to save it up for him"
Let me finish before you chip in your
five cents" yelled Blanchard, quite be-
side himself with rage. IL have been
on to you from the start. You are one
of those efficiency guys they are turn
ing out of colleges these days. You are
fired. Get mel You are f-i-r-e-d. Clear
out now. l won't have you on the
premises"
But" began Monte, regainlng con-
troll of his temper at thought of the in
tense humor of the situation
mo butts go in this Office" bawled
Blanchard. You butted in, now you
butt out Off the premises or l will
call the gate watchman and have you
thrown into the street"
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While the executives In the various
Montgomery plants were generally prac.
tical they had won their promotion by
the calendar and time.clock, and had
been whipped by environment into mar.
row, opinionated, prejudiced, precedent
worshiping views. Distribution was
chiefly carried on through jobbers, and
the whole managemnt of sales as. we'll
as employment was archaic, else no
crook like Lemuel Birdseye could have
risen to high authority. OF his therts
and suicide we have read Only few
of the executives were scientific and
held advanced, progressive views, like
Summers, the iron works boss.
AS Monte walked through the Ken.
sington mill district few weeks after
the death of Jennie Reed his responsi
bilitles to mankind loomed in the pro-
portions of a tremendous undertaking.
He was ever cropping for facts. If he
was to defeat the labor plots of that
dastardly scoundrel, Herr Hugo Hoch.
meister, alias Major Gustave Sigvay,
alias Senior Enrique velasquez who had
engineered the bombing of the Mont
gomery Iron Works and lured Birdseye
to destruction. he must first get firm
grip upon underlying conditions at the
Crispen Textile Mills.
Several intimate talks with Unity
Marley and her big brother Strong had
brought Monte to a realization that.
aside from the immediate menace of the
Sigvay gang and their diabolical schemes,
there was other important work for him
to do. He saw that unless he attained
supreme mastery of the great human
principles governing production today,
SO as forecast his uncle's enterprises in
the mold of the new Industrial era, they
would simply dry up and become breed
ing spots for socialism and chaos.
Blanchard. the mill boss. had been
sullen and gloomy from the morning
Craig Andrews the lawyer, as executor
of the Montgomery estate. ordered the
disuse of the old.fashoned shuttles in
the weave rooms of the WOODEN and
worsted MILL the carpet mill and the
lace mill. He had openly sneered behind
Andrews back when informed that only
hand.threaded shuttles would be used
hereafter in the mills. Blanchard was
thin gray man with a cruel mouth. He
had risen from band.boy in the spinning
department and the higher he went in
authority the less considerate of former
associates he became. How often the
case!
I'D like to know what in hell has got
into Andrews" was his surly greeting
to Monte, when our young multimilllon-
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the Delaware River, where the site of
the tree beneath which Penn made his
famous agreement with the indians IN
1883 is marked by a small plain monu-
ment. why expatiate7 This great
seven-column page is not large enough
for a complete list Of our treasure
gardens
In the evening, before dinner. Mrs.
Marley exclaimed:
you have walked 25 miles, Mr..
Tailer2 Now reallyl Then you must ba
hungry When was girl in Devon.
shire, England there was a man in our
village"
"oh, motherl Mr.. Taller has heard
you tell that story many times" said
Unity, psusing in the kitchen door. TITS
about that wonderful man who walked
down to London every Sunday"
How forgetful 1 am becoming" adj
mitted Mrs. Marley.
"well, l just couldn't wait for you
to tell it again. mother dear, because
wanted to tell Mr.. Taller how splendid
1t was for him to stand up for us mill
workers this morning"
"You know7" replied Monte, some-
what taken aback.
yes! It's the talk of the Fig Four"
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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and officeboys, who had overheard
Blanchard's loud, penny-wise outgiv-
ings.
He knew for a certainty that his dis.
charge by Blanchard would get to the
ears of the mill operatives, weavers
and perchers, handers-ln and beamers,
speakers and doffers. piclers and mixers,
loomfixers and the twoscore other clas.
sihcations of textile skill It tickled his
vanity to feel that his borrowed person
ality even now was saturated in their
good Wills particularly when It was at
the expense of "Rule-o of-thumb BIanch-
ard" Crispen had learned to capital
ize every little advantage, and the longer
he lived the more interesting a place
the world seemed to be. He could be
subtle, too when an occasion demanded.
Fearing that Andrews might let the
cat out of the bag. his first act on
leaving the Big Four was to rush Lars
in the blue limousine with a note to
the lawyer, reciting the incidents of
the morning concluding: Nov be care.
ful and don't spill the beans. Give
Blanchard all the rope he will take.
Don't worry about me. The going is
good"
His next procedure was to give his
healthy athletic body an unstinted out
ing A motor ride to some country club?
No. He was content to square his fine
shoulders, open wide his breathing ap.
paratus, and set out upon a good long
walk in the city that established the
first medical college, the first corporate
bank and the first circulating library;
the city that laid tic keel of the first
American warship and unfurled the
first American faE the home of the
first National Cong SIS and the first
Supreme Court of tn United States.
There is no city in the western world
that gives back so much to the
pedestrian as Philadelphia; history
nature, industry, we find them all within
strolling distance of where we live and
work. But we should not boast
quiet city always, we know we might
boast IL we pleased. Think of it! Forty.
four miles of footpaths in Fairmount
Park alone; then there are the romantic
gorges and cascades of beautiful Wis.
sahickon Glen, and the slumbering little
Penn Treaty Park, in Kensington on
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
AS our young hero turned into Halsey
street he was whistling merrily.
CHAPTER III
Monte Gets Fired

mOnte UetS flTe0
ALL success begins with a plan. No
II plan can succeed that is not based
upon facts, their value and their true
relationship. Each day since his return
from Europe Monte Crispen had been
acquiring new data. He was feverishly
hunting for the wisdom of others. More
than once he thought of splendid young
Englishmen whom he had played with
at polo, golf and other sports in the
sunkissed outdoors of THE Riviera;
men who should have been in Sheffield,
Bradford and Manchester, holding the
place of their country in the arena of
trade against ambitious rivals of other
countries.
Monte conceded that the great indus.
trial enterprises of his uncle were the
massed accumulations of a strong man
who refused to bend before the growing
complexities of modern business; q man
who firmly believed that a capitalist
had right to do anything with labor
so long as he kept his capital working;
a man wholly upright in private life,
yet who always put |expediency and
lawyer-aw above Justice when consid-
ering problems affecting labor.
John Montgomery had never been
hard man. He had been a rule.of.thumb
man, who had left out of his calculations
the human side of business. Labor to
him had been that and no more-labor.
Capital was the same-just capital. Two
hard, grinding surfaces, labor and cap
ital, that rubbed we'll together produced
a grist profit; in turn, profit to become
capital. Around every circle he saw
another to be drawn, an endless process
patterned after the planet system Each
new enterprise was a fresh planet
ringed
Marshall Field, as he advanced in
years, drew into his business the bright
est brains that his money could COM
mand, and used their judgments in
forming his own; their initiative in keep
ing him abreast of the times. Old Mont
gomery had dominated alone, and he
had become so engrossed in the creation
of new circles of personal control that
at his death nearly all of his great enter
prises had themselves been passed By
new conditions.
Hence 1t came that Monte found his
uncle's estate Graded an iron works
full of obsolete processes textile mills
with narrow looms only and much non
safety, antiquated machinery and q
shipyard rapidly falling into decay.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-01
By ARNOLD GARRY COLIN
CHAPTER u-Continued

CHAPTER II-Continued
aTAM attentive" said Andrews, with
La laugh.
"What I want to know is how long 1t
will take to equip all our textile mills
with non-suction shuttle appliancesT'
probably 80 days; can't say off
hand"
mot much" replied Monte. "It must
be attended to now. This is dead seri.
-ous, Andrews"
VERY we'll, I will get Blanchard on
the phone tonight and have him make
up an estimate on the cost and the low
est minimum time for installation"
"And want you to see that a rule is
posted against any further threading Of
shuttles by the suction method"
"That is as good as DONE" said An
drews. "You must be at the mill head
quarters tomorrow morning at o'clock.
/ have arranged to present you to Blan-
chard as Mr. Taller"
Monte responded "I will be there at s
o'clock"
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Jimmy's Reward

BY EDWARD WHITE, Hermitage st.
Once there was a little boy who was
poor, but very honest. His mother was
dead. and to save his soul he could not tell
where his father was. SO he had 10 sell
papers for living. One day a rich man
came by and asked for paper
Jimmy qor that was the boys name)
gave him an EVENING LEDGER. The rich
man handed Jimmy a quarter and then
jumped on a car and In a second was
gone. Jimmy stood spellbound, looking
at the quarter, and was wondering who
the rich man was when suddenly he spied
a card which he saw the rich man drop.
He ran over and picked 1t up. and then
looked at IL. James brennan, 46 5th
avenue. New York" was on the card.
Jimmy knew exactly where that was, so
he jumped on trolley car and in a few
minutes was standing in front of the
door. He rang the bell and a maid came
TO the door rs Mr. brennan here p
asked Jimmy
Yes. come in." said the maid.
Jimmy walked in ana was amazed TO
find that his feet sunk In the carpet at
every step. In few minutes Mr.. Dren-
nan came In and jimmy handed him "a
cents in change.
whats this?" said Mr. brennan
.You gave me quarter ana 1 thought
/ would bring you the change" answered
Jimmy
Never mind keep the change, ana as
a mark OF my esteem for your honesty 1
win present you with . check He handed
Jimmy = check for sI00 ana told him to
come tomorrow. Jimmy went the next
day ana the man bought him ! new suit
o clothes and gave him position n ais
oflice.
wasn't a. very soqa for poor ueFk-
lns hey7
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of ten little Rainbows. They are Dicky
Hoyt, Suzanne Pequignot. Eleanor Car
son. Samuel Castner. Catherine Castner,
Mildred Berico, Dicky Krick, Natalie Byer
and L. Hause. We would like TO hear
more about these little folks Florence
Clothier, of Wynnewood. cheerfully an
swered our Easter summons and sent
flowers and Dummies" to the hospitals
Aaron Everly Carpenter Sd. of Bala. is
another little suburbanite who responds
promptly to the Rainbow call.
Thomas Smith. who lives at the Rush
Hospital Is one of our most faithful puz,
zle solversl Elizabeth Turner, OF Walnut
street. and Catherine Hayes. OF Overbrook.
are two little girls whose answers appear
so regularly that they have grown 70 be
our calendar How many more Rain
bows want to help your editor keep track
OF the days7
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FARMER SMITHS FAIRY BOOK
Willie Wideawake's Eyes

Il have good notion to glue my eyes
together and see If 1t will not make me go
to Sleep" said Willie Wldeawake one
! night when he just couldn't go to sleep
there was no use talking.
That will do no good. for you can lie
awake when your eyes are shut. You are
funny fellow to think that your eyes
have anything to do with your going to
sleep You simply get sleepy and your
eyes go shut-pop! just like that, and
your arms fall by your side" 1t was
voice beside him which Willie knew was
the Good Dream Fairy.
neutrality-suspicious., Good Dream Fairy,
J nave such hard time going to sleep.
try and try, and hese 1t is half-past-
well, it's very late and 1 am not asleep
yet" Willie yawned and the pillow al
most fell in his mouth. Look out :"
shouted the Good Dream Fairy.
See how quickly your dear little eyes
shut? There is nothing more wonderful
in the whole wide world than your tiny
eyes. Your eyelid keeps the light out SO
that you may go TO sleep, and 1t opens in
the morning when there is nothing else
for you to do but get up. But most i'm
portant of all, your eyelld keeps the ball
of your eye moist, so that 1t will not
scratch. Think about these things when
you can't go to sleep and IL will be much
better than thinking of a lot of trash"
The Good Dream Fairy turned her beauti-
ful eyes upon Willie and he thought he
had never seen such eyes before
What beautiful eyes you have"
You may think So but tell you that
my eyes or your eyes without the lashes,
without their surrounding would not be
more beautiful than is a ish's eyes"
The Good Dream Fairy was spreading her
wings and making ready to fly away when
Willie heard loud noise, and looking up,
he saw his mother entering the room.
why, mother dear, I have not been
asleep yet" said Willie in great surprise.
That is too bad" began his mother.
II guess you have been dreaming again
dreaming you are wfdeawake."
II had beautiful time, for the Good
Dream Fairy told me lot about my
eyes"
And then his mother did very beauti-
ful thing-she kissed his eyes.