Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-03-26
Monarch Company Sold.

". W. True and J. r. Akin of the
Monarch Evaporation company were
in Bellows Falls last week and COM
pleted arrangements whereby the
Vermont Farm Machine company ac-
quires the industry of the Monarch
Sugar Tools and will take possession
of the same June 1st at which time
the stock, tools and machinery will
be moved to Bellows Falls.
1t is to be deeply regretted that
Newport thus loses one of her thriv-
ing Industries but the rapidly devel-
l-oping hardware business of True e
Blanchard Co., demands all the time,
strength and energy of both MIR.
True and Mr.. Akin and without large
ly increased capital and a change in
management it became more and
more apparent to them that full JUS
tice could not be done to both the
store and the sugar tool business, I'M
der the one management.
Being DESTROYS of seeing the Mon
arch business developed to the limit
of its great possibilities they are much
gratified to have it go into the hands
| of a company so splendidly equipped
to develop it as is the Vermont Farm
Machine company, one of the pio-
neers in the manufacture of sugar
| tools, having a splendid manufac-
turing plant and with a selling force
already in the field which covers
every maple producing section of the
country.
| The Monarch Evaporation and line
of Monarch sugar-making equipment
which was later developed is strictly
| a Newport product. 1t was designed
by Mr.. True and nearly all the later
| improvements which have been made
on it during the years of development
are his.
The Monarch was first built in the
tinshop of True & Blanchard, where
they continued to be made until the
industry outgrew these quarters and
the business moved to its present To-
cation. While the design and con-
struction of the same was almost en-
tirely original and radical depart
ure from anything else of the KIND
on the market, the basic principle
has never been changed in the least
although very many improvements
have been made in details.
The first Monarch evaporation was
built in 1898, there being only two or
three made that year. Of these one
was sold to the late n. F. Ball and
another to Frank Wheelock and so
far as can be learned both are in
working condition at this time. Since
then over 700 Monarchs have been
sold in Vermont, New Hampshire and
New York and a few in Massachu-
sets and Pennsylvania. The Mon
arch bucket was developed in more
recent years and only the outbreak of
the war prevented its manufacture in
a very large way. In the season OF
1913 and 1914 over $4,000 of them
were made and sold. The total out
put, however, has reached 125,OOO ano
900 of them have been sold this
season at $4,000 per hundred and or
ders are being turned down every day
: on account of their being entirely sole
out.
The officers of the Monarch Evap.
orator Co., all of whom have held the
same since its incorporation IN 1914
) when it took over the sugar tool In
terests from True & Blanchard Co:
are as follows: President, W. w
True; vice president, j. r: Akin; sec
rotary, E. F. Hobson; directors, w
, w. True, J. R. Akin, E. M. Hunt, F
! L. Patterson.
The Monarch line of goods enjoy:
the enviable reputation of being thu
most modern, complete and compre
7 hensive on the market, and only need!
: working capital, wise management
7 and a wide selling organization tt
} make it an industry second to none O.
5 its kind in America.
Aside from the Monarch Evapora
, tor, each being equally as popular
!, are the hauling tank, storage tank
! sap bucket, bucket cover and 1mperi