The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-01-04
BILLY SUNDAY-vERMONT
AERONAuTICS AND APPLES
"The Nomad" in the Boston Transcript
Writes Entertainingly of Each OF

Writes EnteftaihiHeiS oi Lawn Va
Them.
Tho folks from Vermont came down
in a bunch 10 see Billy Sunday, and
with their usual powers Of observation
they estimated him pretty well, with
out hitting the trail any more violent
ly than was necessary to get the full
impression. They all agree that Billy
is near the point of nervous exhaus-
ton, and they say that he will "have
10 pull in his horns" before long II he
wants to keep his platform. And yet
how can he quit? He seems to be in
for it Hiram Sawtelle, Of Catamount
Hollow, described Billy's situation in
this respect very well when he said
that the evangelist has got his neck
yoke wedged agin' a tree, and he can't
back up nor go ahead" The folks
from Enosburg Falls were very en-
thusiastic about Sunday Annette
Parnelee, Of that place, has written
home as follows: "Well, ! am here, and
attending each service, and the more
sec and hear and know, the more
specchless | am becoming. So am
sending this much before ] become
completely dumb" Her letter has been
published in the home paper, and IT
/ leads her noighbor Of the Randolph
News and Herald to make this obser-
walton: "Well, if Billy can silence our
Annette, he sure is marvel"
Several other things in Vermont
have interested the Nomad recently.
! One of them is the organization OF the
Aero Club Of Vermont. An Aero Club
in Vermont! Can an aeroplane land
on the side Of hill? Perhaps they
have learned how to make a side-hili
aeroplane at Bellows Falls or st.
.Johnsbury. An aviator in Vermont
would have to fly higher than wild
goose in the open season to keep from
colliding with a mountain-top every
mile or two. One would naturally call
that the worst place for aviation in the
world And yet people said the same
2 thing of automobiles when they frst
came in. There was one State, we all
felt that was immune to gasolene, and
n that was Vermont. But now every
r farmer in the State has ----- one OF
'em. and the machines go skipping
over the highest hills like a six
months-old calf over the home pas
ture. IL the Vermont farmers take up
= aviation, they will simply beat the
a world at it; they will have to, in order
n to get around at all. Can't you see
Hiram Sawtelle going out in his mono
plane to salt the sheep in the back
n pasture? And imagine the sheep the
II first time he heaves in sight in II!
IT you would have to imagine them.
IS There wouldn't be sheep in sight.
Another interesting thing that
/ comes from Vermont is the fact that
). at the recent New England fruit show
n Vermont apple e-growers took forty-one
rs of the prizes and led the other States
in the number of premiums won. bu'
though this fact is interesting, IL II
NJ not surprising. This beautiful poetry
IS, from the Elm Tree Monthly, Of Wood
n. stock. is entirely true:
ed The apples from Hood River take the
prize for pulchritude,
For color, for alluring looks, fol
es style;
as But for apples to be eaten the yer
en- mont kind has them beaten
p BY mile.
Every fruit is best when 1t is sue
cessfully produced near the northen
nd limit of its possible cultivation. w
70, find that to be true in the case OF TN
ng Florida oranges. Vermont and Can
ily ada prove it to be true in the matte
Of apples. The delicious little fa
meuse, or Snow apple, is Canadia
IN production, and it reaches perfectio
IN in Vermont. The Fameuse has an cS
eld tremely hopeful child in the Melntos
nat Red, also Vermont apple. All IN
Ille regular varieties that will grow at a
in Vermont are better there than an,
where else, as these fruit show award
av- proye. Orcharding is going to take
zen great lump forward on the Green hill
oln ------
81, Infantile paralysis has again AZ
as peared in New Haven, the youngc'
asst son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Belts bein
his afflicted.
Twenty-Five barrels Of apples wei
ms frozen stiff Thursday night, when
oss cnploye Of +. j. Duprat OF Colcheste
ex- took one drink too much and then 10
ton 90, all about the fruit. He was takir
i've the apples to Burlington.