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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-11-15
YOUR LAST CHANCE

to join the piano club is Nov. 28th.
A large number Of people who have
taken advantage of this rare oppor-
ter receiving their piano that they
were more than pleased with the pi-
ano. The price for this most beauti-
full piano to club members is $3.50
and such easy terms that anyone de-
string piano cannot afford to miss
this opportunity. Send for catalogue
and full particulars to George D. Jar
Wis & Son, Burlington, Vt. adv
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GREENSBORO

NLGG1AANHJlDOINO
Mrs. C. H. Miller visited in Stowe
last week.
Mrs. H. II. Haires went to Cabot
Friday for the weekend.
The village fire department held it's
monthly tryout Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Ethel Alger of Jericho has
been visiting friends in town the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Kinney Of Fair
haven were recent visitors at the
home of DR.. T. c. Kinney.
A new chimney has been built on
the Congregational church the past
week, the work being done by E. Z.
Harrison.
Will Hardy, who has been employed
in a woodworking establishment in
North Troy for several months, is
now at home.
Three girls from this town played
in the Craftsbury academy basket ball
team which played at Orleans Mon
day evening.
Albert Young and family and Hor-
ace McLaren and family left lastweek
by auto for Florida, where they will
spend the winter.
N. L. Drown has graded the
grounds in front of his house and
barn the past week and greatly i'm
proved the premises.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Parker, who
were the last of our summer colony,
closed their cottage on Sunset Point
last week and left for Florida for the
winter.
Among those home from school du-
ties over Sunday were Miss Mildred
Fairbanks of Johnson normal school,
and Miss Marjorie Perrin of Crafts
bury academy.
Mrs. A. B. DeBrune was taken to
Mary Fletcher hospital in Burling-
ton Friday and underwent an opera
ton Saturday morning. She is re-
ported as doing nicely.
The C. E. meeting Sunday evening
will be at 7.3O o'clock The subject
will be, "Why Christianity is the
Hope of Our Country" and the lead
er will be George Tolman.
The Vigilants and the Glad Game
class of the Congregational Sunday
school will together hold social in
the church sparlor Saturday evening.
1t is hoped that all the members of
both classes will be present
Do not forget the oyster supper
given under the auspices of the Vii
lage Improvement club Friday eve
ming. The promenade will be in the
town hall, the oyster supper in the
vestry OF, the Congregational church.
Dinner was served at the Congre
gational church election day by the
Ladies Home Circle and many who
were working on the school grounds
and church sheds as we'll as voters
took advantage of the opportunity to
get hot dinner
Among those who went to Newport
Monday and Tuesday of last week to
serve as witnesses in the trial of F. F.
Wakefield VS.. the Town of Green's
boro, were Dr. F. c. Kinney. A. E..
Perrin, F. III. Dufur, w. S. Ingalls,
and George Porter.
Many were disappointed by the
small number. of votes cast in the
election here. Only I43 voters went
to the polls, this being more than 100
short of the voting population of the
town. A presidential year should
bring out large vote.
The Caspian Lake Grange will hold
it's meeting Thursday, Nov. % and
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THE GREENSBOROS

the evening will be observed as gen
tlemen's night. The following COM
mittee will be in charge: J. II. Bar
rington, A B. Cuthbertson, n. L.
Drown and R. A. Richie.
The Caspian Lake basket ball team
played the fast Boy Scouts team of
Hardwick Friday evening and won
from them by a score of 26 to %. The
game was of two Commute halves
and was a clean fast game through
out. P A. Shattuck was referee and
Rev. E. c.. Hayes was time keeper.
A brush fire at the south end Of the
lake Saturday morning created con-
siderable excitement for time as
many believed it to be in or near one
of the cottages. A number of men
visited the scene of the trouble and
reported a brush fire thoughtlessly
kindled by some one on that very
windy morning.
The next number of the Greensboro
Lecture course will be given We'd
nesday evening, Nov. 22d by the Mu-
steal Arts quartet. The aim of these
artists is to offer the fullest enjoy
ment of good music, rather than the
passing music of musical show,
yet to present a program full of life,
color and variety.
GREENSBORO BEND
Gertrude Wood is working at W.
D. Hills.
E. r. Collins has been quite i'll with
! the grip the past week.
Mrs. William Sternburg has fin
| ished work for E. L. Adams.
Mary Weed is spending few days
at J. D. Huchins's in Stannard.
D. c. Barber and Erving Billiard
have each shingled their houses.
F. A. Amsden is having his tene-
ment over the store wired for electric
lights.
The Stannard Ladies' Aid society
met with Mrs. j. II. Pope Thursday
for dinner.
George Chamberlin and family of
ST. Johnsbury visited at F. B. Cham
berlin's Sunday.
B. P. Vallencourt is taking two
months vacation from his duties as
mail carrier. B. D. Piper is carry
ing the mail at present.
The Ladies' Aid society of the M.
E. church served a chicken-pie din
ner at the vestry Wednesday.
John Eggleston had the misfortune
to break an axle on his automobile
Sunday on his way to Sheffield.
J. G. Simpson and A. c.. Chase are
in Newport this week attending court
while the F. F. Wakefield VS.. the
town of Greensboro case is being
tried.
GREENSBORO-North Neighborhood
David Speir has been i'll with the
grip the past week.
Everett Rutledge is out of school
on account of sickness
Miss Mildred Fairbanks spent the
weekend at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs T. w. Gebbie visited
relatives at Ryegate Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs Irwin Wilson enter
tanned few friends one evening last
week.
Much sympathy is felt for Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Campbell in the death of
their little son.
Mrs. Harlie Haines was called to
Cabot the last of the week by sick
ness of Mr.. Haines' father.
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NOTICE.

The legal voters of the town of
Westmore are hereby notified and
warned to meet at the schoolhouse in
district No. 2 in said Westmore on
Saturday, the 25th day of November
A. D. 1916, at one o'clock p. NJ, to
transact the following business:
Art 1. To elect collector of tax
es to fill the unexpired term of F. j..
Orne.
Art. 2. To do any other business
that may come before such meeting.
Dated at Westmore this 9Th day of
November, A. D. 1916.
M. E. Calkins,
l. A. Wilson,
G. l.. Nutting,
Selectmen.
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on music was carried out and Mrs.
Cutler gave several fine selections on
the monograph. The next meeting
will be Nov. % with Mrs. Goddard.
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MORGAN CENTER

Mr.. and Mrs. G. L Burroughs en-
tertained friends from Derby recent
ly.
Fred Burroughs of St. Johnsbury
recently visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. L. Burroughs
L. A. Wheeler, Claude Peavey, Will
lard Calkins and Harry Burroughs
went by auto to Groveton Friday.
The oyster supper given by the M.
w. A. to the ladies of the Auxiliary,
was IN every way a success, the
weather being perfect and the supper
bountiful one
HOLLAND
Will Harris is very sick at this
writing.
Mrs. Stearns' daughter, Gertrude,
is visiting her.
Mrs. A. R. Hall is spending the
week in Sherbrooke.
Mrs. Gerald Buzze1 is stopping
with her parents for time.
Miss Ruth Hall was taken to Sher-
brooke hospital Thursday and under
went successful operation for ap-
pendicitis.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-11-15
CUSTOM WOOL CARDING

Hand Spun Knitting Yarns $1.l6 per pound.
Parcel Post extra, wooden rolls, wool left
at O. w. Seaver's, North Troy; F. w, Carr s
store, Newport; B. d. Ruggles' store West
Burke, before Sept 90 carded and returned
at 10c per bundle extra. Season closes at
mill, Nov. Is. H. O. GAY. Barton, VT.
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Stay In.

She-'T'ro actually ashamed to go
on s. 1T with my shabby clothes"
He-'And mine are so worn out that
I'm ashamed to wear 'em out"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-11-15

Ills Business.
"She's a married woman and yet
she let's another woman's husband fiat
ter her" Shocking. Tell me, who
is the man?" "a photographer"
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Commissioners Notice
Estate Of Isabella 4. White

The Undersigned, having been appointed
by the H honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict Of Orleans, COM MESSENGERS, to re-
ceive examine and adjust the claims and
demands of all persons against the estate of
Isabella A. White, late of Glover in said
District, deceased. and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
Will meet for the purpose aforesaid
at the late residence in said district on the
I'd day of December and I'd day of May next
from l O'Clock p. M, until O'Clock, p. M.
on each of said days and that six months
from the I'd day of November A. u. 1916. is
the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to us for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Glover. VT. this 18th day of
November, A. d. 1916.
GEORGE L. YOUNG,
IY MAN.BARBER,
1913 commissioners.
Evening star., 1916-11-05

prints had been taken identity could
have been established.
The system would be invaluable in
railroad accident cases, in mysterious
disappearance or aphasia cases. FIRE.
quently bodies are taken to the morgue,
never identified, and are buried in a
potter's field. Were there a central
bureau, not a police institution, but n
political and civil bureau, many mys-
teries might be solved.
Some time ago young fellow
walked into a Washington drug store
on very cold day, barefooted. with
were telephoned for, but the man
didn't know his name. He could only
remember the name of Chicago no
tel He was taken to the Washington
Asylum for surveillance. 1t was sug-
gested that his finger prints be taken
on account of his military bearing
and sent to the War and Navy depart
ments. There it was discovered that
he had been sailor on the U. 8. s.
Virginia. So another mystery was
cleared up by the system"
Mr. Sandberg was born in Dalarne. in
the central part of Sweden, and came to
this country when he was seventeen
years old He went through the ele
mentary schools in Sweden. but there
was no public school system for the
higher grades. Being of nomadic turn
of mind, he migrated to America. He
went to the northern part of Wiscon-
sin and worked for some time in a lum-
ber camp The camp was made up Of
French. Germans. Americans and Sean
dinavians. No two seemed to speak the
same language, and Mr.. sandberg then
knew no English. 1t was a lonely life
and he listened intently to the lumber
men trying to catch a familiar word
He gradually became familiar with
ITvO1 oh fho MT ba arrpv
served through the Spanish American
war. laying marine mines and torpedoes
With the United States engineer
Corps he went to Alaska After working
there for some time he re-enlisted in the
army and went to the Philippines. In
1904, when his enlistment expired. he
Joined the Washington police and was
detailed to Photographic work. In 1905
he took up finger print identification.
He speaks with enthusiasm of his ex-
perience in the army. and no doubt his
nomadic career has helped him much in
his study of human life in its many va
rieties.
Evening star., 1916-11-05

lets. fractures or shrinkage cracks,
which traverse the rock in all direc-
tions. without determinate order and at
varying intervals apart. the wider the
vein the greater the intervening dis
tance. The vefnlets vary in width
from a fraction of one inch to three or
four inches and are as rule but few
feet In length. pinching out to mere
knifeltke edges. When the veins are
half an inch or more in width the mas
sive rock Is broken away by hand and
the vein matter crushed and fbered for
use. When the veins are small and
a crusher and the fbered material sep
arated from the stony matter by me-
chanical appliances.
'"rhe long fibered material can be
spun or woven into cloth; the short
fiber is used mainly in the manufacture
of freproof felt. steam packing, roofing
material, ETC."
The United States bureau Of mines has
reported that In 1915 there was a great
increase in the production of high grade
asbestos in Arizona. The lower grade as
bestos produced In this country comes
mainly from Georgia. Both Arizona
and Georgia are capable OF increasing
their output. Some years ago Vermont
had a productive mine. in the same belt
of rocks that contain the rich deposits
of asbestos In Canada. For the last few
years the mine has not been In opera
ton, but as q result Of the Canadian
embargo It may again become valua-
BILE source Of supply.
According to government authority
the United States marketed in 1915.
1.73l short tons Of asbestos Of domestic
production, valued at 376,s62. Compared
with the production Of 1914 this repre-
sents gain OF 30 per cent In quantity
and 306 per cent In value.
Virginia 10 producing small amount
Of asbestos, though the production
might be Increased There are deposits
Of commercial Importance In the
Kamiah region Of Idaho, in the Casper
mountain region OF Wyoming. In Cali
fornia, in the Grand Canyon region of
Arizona and In Georgia, and II 10 said
that there 10 q strong probability that
in view Of the recent trouble In obtain
ing supplies from Canada the Vermont
mines Wtll resume operations.
Evening star., 1916-11-05

to feed a mink and $3.50 to feed a mar
ten or sable. The animals are given
salmon. moose meat. horse meat and
rabbits. and also carrots and turnips.
On the fox farm near Dawson a COM
mon feed is rice and rabbits cooked to-
gether into stew. One farm there
feeds sixteen rabbits and fifteen pounds
of rice day to forty-two foxes. The
stew is fed cold morning and evening.
The foxes will come out of their dens
and grab 1t and carry it inside with
them. After while they come back
and get more. McCreary, who owns a
fox farm at Copper Center, varies his
fox food between rabbits and meat and
fish. He gives them two cooked meals
a day and a third meal of raw rabbits.
throwing in as many as fifty rabbits
for a single feed.
-
On the farm at Fairbanks l saw one
litter of foxes that was being moth
cred by a cat. She had three baby
foxes which. when grown. will be
worth from $500 to $1,000 apiece. and
possibly more. The mother of these
foxes was a very nervous animal and
the farmers feared she might kill her
young. So they were taken away and
given to the cat in place of her kit
tens. The cat adopted them and she
plays with them as though they were
dollar foxes seem to like their new
mother quite as well as their old one.
The managers tell me 1t is necessary
to have cats around q fox farm for
such complications. They say that one
man in eastern Canada lost a litter Of
silver foxes because he would not pay
a high price for a cat. The mother Of
the foxes had died, and in looking
around to find a cat in the proper con-
dition. the farmer discovered but one
only. The owner of the cat appreciated
his need and refused to sell his cat for
less than $500. The fox farmer was
indignant and refused. The result was
that he lost five little foxes that might
have been worth $4,000. and all for a
hve-hundred-dollar cat. One fox
raised by a cat here at Fairbanks had
a pelt which was valued at $500.
AS it is now q good black or a silver
fox skin brings an enormous price. Tha
arm at Fairbanks has averaged $75o for
skins Of that kind sold in London I have
shown how Dalton got an average Of $778
for 2o3 skins. At one time he got $4,000
for twenty-four silver fox pelts, and OF
hose three brought over $500 apiece.
One sold for more than $500, and the
average for the whole twenty-five was
more than $1.400 apiece. In March. 1910.
l76 silver fox skins were sold At auction
In London. bringing from $500 to &2.7c0
per skin. Of which more than half Of the
skins, selling for $500 or more, came
from fox farms. At the last sale at
Lampson's the average price o3 wild
silver fox skins was $500. and that for
the skins from the best ranchee 81 SEQ.
FRANK q. CA ENTER
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acres divided up into woven wire pens.
The wire is of steel and the mesh is
about an inch in diameter.
Another farm on the Tanana is that
belonging to two brothers named Va
chon. 1t is situated at Tolovana about
1876 miles from Fairbanks, and its high
wire fences can be plainly seen from
the steamer. The farm proper covers
five acres all fenced with steel wire
and divided up into compartments.
There are also small pens or cages
rooted with chicken wire outside the
main Enclosure and near the bank of
the river. Among the older foxes there
are seventeen fine silver grays and
number of blacks. The cages near the
river seem to be devoted mostly to the
babies The latter are the size of kit
tens and are far more cunning and
pretty.
They have long. bushy tails, little
sharp noses, and their eyes sparkle like
Jet. In the same pens are baby mar
tens, with heads not bigger than the
fist of baby and eyes the size OF q
ack-headed PIN The marten has a
gorgeous yellow throat. The rest of
its fur is rich brown. 1t is really
sable, and is sometimes known as the
Alaska sable, the best of which are
equal to the SabteS OF RUSSIA.
To return to the big ten-acre fox
farm at Fairbanks, it belongs to men
who live here In Alaska, and to others
in New York and New Jersey. 1t was
started a year or ago with CAPT.
talization of about 100000. So far.
about 100000 has been invested, and
this includes the cost of the farm and
the equipment and the breeding ami
mails The land. kennels and all the
machinery cost $4,000. and the breed
ing animals $4,000. There are. alto
gether, about 200 animals. including
foxes and others, and all that Is needed
to care for them is two men.
The Alaskan owners became inter-
ested in fox farming by visit from
some of the farmers of Prince Edward
Island. These men came here to buy
live foxes from the Indians and trap
pers. They purchased a number, and
after they left 1t was currently re-
ported that they had made $4,000 out
of their sales. Mr.. Joseph Stirling,
one of the owners Of the farm. then
went east to look into FOX farming:
He arrived there in 1914 and learned
of the profits Of the industry and Its
possibilities. He thought 1t ridiculous
that the farmers OF Alaska should NOT
be able to do as we'll az those of
Canada. especially as this country has
better foxes and makes better fur.
When he cafne back he aided in organ
Using the company.
/ have asked q number Of the man
ayers as to the food used for their fur
bearing animals. On the, fox farm
here It costs sl1 year TO I'd fox, IS
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Asbestos Resources of the United States

rieties are popularity called rock cork,
mountain leather, fossil paper and fos-
sill fax. Asbestos in modern times
has come to be very extensively manu-
gloves. felt paper and other articles
OF human use and is much used as a
covering to steam boilers and pipes, in
the manufacture of gas stoves, and,
as a paint for wooden structures, roofs
partitions and the like, to render them
ireproof or fre-resistent. 1t is found
in most parts of the world. chiefly in
thority says that it is highly useful
mineral, a flbrous variety of several
members of the hornblende family.
composed of separable filaments. with
being delicate, flexible and elastic and
at other times stiff and brittle"
In two large glass cases in the min
eral division of the National Museum
weighing perhaps thousand pounds
and the other probably five or six hum
dred. showing many wide and deep
veins of the curious fiber called as
Is labeled "Fibrous and massive SER
pentine." and was a gift to the museum
from the Thetford mines Of Quebec.
Canada. The larger of the specimens
was a gift to the museum from the
Lowell Lumber and Asbestos Company
of Lowell, VT.
The descriptive cards attached to
these exhibits set forth much interest-
ing information about asbestos. The
card attached to the specimen from the
Thetford mines reads as follows: This
specimen admirably illustrates tho
mode of occurrence of the hbrous va
riety Of serpentine (chrysotile) in a.
massive rock OF the same general COM
position. The fbrous material IL
known commercially as asbestos and is
used for the same purpose as the true
asbestos. which 10 variety Of amphi-
bole.
"At Thetford, Canada, the rock carry
ing the asbestos occurs In series of
low. rounded hills composed almost
wholly of scrDentineus material The
asbestos itself occurs III small. sen-
Evening star., 1916-11-05

has been shown that, rightly handled.
there Is no other live stock industry
that can produce anything like the
profits of the raising of foxes.
But suppose we visit some of the big
fox farms of Alaska. I say big, but
there are none of them which cover
more than five or ten acres. and II you
want to start a new ranch Alaska
gives you all out of doors to select
from. The first farm we shall see is
situated in the Tanana valley. a mile
and half from Fairbanks. 1t consists
of ten acres of cleared land. the great
er part of which is covered with pens
in which these little animals live, move
and have their being. Looking at it
from distance. the fox farm has the
appearance Of a great chicken yard
coops of various sizes inside them
Each of the pens Is fifty feet long,
eight feet wide and about ten feet high.
The wire is much like chicken wire,
tends as high above the ground as the
wire about a tennis court. The wire
in sunk about four feet in the ground
and is then bent over SO that it runs
This Is to prevent the foxes from bur-
rowing out from under the wire. At
the top the wire has an overhang of
two feet. forming little roof of that
width all around the coop. This is to
prevent the foxes climbing over the
wire. Each pen has its own kennel
made of boards This is a house like
dog kennel. 1t is entered by a board
chute up which the fox runs when it
goes in, and in some cases wooden
pipes foot square serve as an en-
trance. The foxes run in and out of
these pipes and they usually carry
their food inside to eat it.
There is but one pair of foxes in each
pen. The animals are very timid and
they have to be handled carefully. Most
of the fox farmers will not permit Wis
itors to enter their property for fear
they will frighten the foxes. The ami
mails grow crazy when excited and they
sometimes eat their young. On the
other hand, they get acquainted with
their keepers and there are some which
become so tame that strangers can
handle them. During my visit to fox
farm on the Tanana river, my daugh-
ter, who is with me. picked up two little
silver gray fellows of the size of kit
tens and hugged them to her while I
made a snapshot. ] do not know what
those foxes are worth at this writing,
but three years ago they would have
brought thousand dollars apiece
The farm where the foxes are SO tame
10 near Hot Springs, about three or
four miles from the river. It was
started by men who have been in the
business of fox raising on Prince Ed
ward Island. They have gotten their
breeding stock from the Indians, pay
Ing from 800 to $500 apiece for the
animals. The latter price was for jet
black fox whose skin would have
brought almost as much as the price
paid for 1t. That farm covers about six