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BUSINESS INCREASES SO PER CENT OVER
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CALEDONIAN-RECORD
The VVeather
Fair tonight and Satur
day, Bomewhat colder
with northerly gales.
A Newspaper Covering
the Emiro Northeast
SctIon of Vermont State
Evefy Working Day.
LATEST EDITION
VOL. VII XUMBER 154
ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT FRIDA Y, DECEMBER 29, 1922
PRICE TWO CENTS.
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Springfield Pleased
With New System
Editor Stone Finds Citizen s
Enthusiastic Over New
Government
Uy Ailhur F. Stone
(Editor Caledonian-Record)
The town manager system is a success in Springfield,
Vermont, and the municipality starts its fourth year with ali
bills paid, with money in the bank running into thousands of
dolb.rs, and about everybody satisfied except a few who have
PLANS HOTEL
AND RAILWAY
AT OWL'S HEAD
Edward Audinwood
Derby Line Buys
Property
of
Old Owl's Head mountain,
which has towered in lonely grand
eur over the beautiful waters of
Lake Memphremagog for so many
years, may somctime become a
popular mecca for pleasure seek
ers from the cities, and a scene of
gayety and bustling activity if the
dieams of Edward Audinwood of
Derby Line come trae.
Mr. Audinwood, who is a pros
perous business man of Derby
Line, has bought several hundred
acres of C. A. K. MaePherson of
Georgeviile, which includes the
Owl's Head Mountain House prop
erty and Owl's Head itsclf.
A largo modorn hote'. and good
automobile roads are pianned, and
an inclined railway with cable ear
to the top of the mountain lile
that of Mount Royal in Montreal
is also under eonsidetation. I
There is no fairer i-pot on the
Lake than at Owl's Head where
there has been in the past two
good summer hotels. There is a
naturai harbor, a fine beach, good
fishing, and every naturai advan
tage for the promotion of such a
project. i
And this reminds us that uiis
idea of a railway to the top of the
mountain would suit mightily some
of the mountain climbing' enthus
iasts like Dcnny Goode of Boston
and Frederick Taylor o New
York, members of the Green
Mountain Club, who carne ali the
way to Ncwport to cliait, Jay Peak
and then sat comfortably cnscon
sed before a blazmg wood fire at
the Ncwport House and comfort -ably
promoted the Long Trail
while they ate a good dinner.
Meanwhile the party of eighty
fi'om Burlington did ncit bulk at
an inch or two of snow and scaled
the frosty peak above the clouds.
U. V. M. WILL
PLAY MARQUETTE
MILWAUKEE, Dee. 2! The
Marchette University football team
will meet the University of Ver
mont team bere on Thanksgiving
day, 102.'5.
DRASTIC POLITICAL
ACTION IN JAPAN
TOKIO, l'ec. 2! The Privy
Council today passed a resolution
condemning the policy of the Kato
cabinet. Such action is unprceed
ented in the history of Japancsc
politit's.
PRESIDENT OF THERMOS
BOTTLE COMPANY DEAD
NORWICH, Conn., Dee. 20
William lì. Walker, president of
the American Thermos liottle Co.
of this city, (lied at his home in
New London earìy today after a
five weeks' illness of heart toublc.
ARBUCKLE MAY
DIRECT FILM MAKING
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dee. 20
Will IL Hays, director general of
the motion picture industry-, said
to the Wonian's City Club today
that Roseo' "Fatty" Arbuckle
probably would ne-: appear in any
motion pictures again but would
he given an oppor;unity to direct
film production.
CONFERENCE TO
TAKE UP REPARATIONS
PARIS, Dee. 20 As a result of
an exchange of views betwi-en the
1're.miers, the Allies have decideil
to go over the entiie (Uestion of
reparation in detail at the Paris
conference which will begin Tues
day. It is expected now in oflicial
circles that it will retiuiie at least
a week and perhaps two weeks lo,
complete Mie di..i'U; km.
iiot been able to furnish the town
with labor and supplies at their
own price. This i sbecause the town
manager, .1. Ti. Wright, demands of
everyone value received and ' in
making hi.s purchases, except the
small items, calls for competive
bids and plays no favoritcs. The
selectmen and the school board,
one of whom is a woman, are serv
ine their three terms without pay
and the village trustees are paid
$150 a year. And the three
boards engagé the town manager
every year and he delivers the
goods.
Springfield today has the ablest
business men in the community on
its board of selectmen men who
are known ali over the state. The
farmers are represented by J. L.
Johnson, the manager of one of
the best farms in Windsor rounty
and in close touch with the agri
cultural interest. Everad Stubbs,
the sscond member, is superinten
dent of the Fellows Gear Shaper
Company, and the third member is
Col. William I. Woolson, treasur-
er of the Jones and Lamson Com
pany and a director or officer in
many other Springfield corpora
tlons. The village is just as fortu
nate in its three trustee.s even if
they are not as well known outside
as the seliK-tmcn and they are as
enthusiastic as the other board in
the town management forni of
government. While the .school di-
rectors do not have as much to do
with the system as the other
boards they never throw u monkey
wrench in the cogs and the three
boards co-ordinate like the move
ment of a Swiss watch. And be
cause of this co-operation and be
cause of the efficiency of the town
manager, Springfield ha.i the best
Street of any town in Vermont,
the place is splendidly lighted, the
taxes have been lowered, and ali
this has been accomplished against
tremendous opposition the first
yc-qr and through three years of
ilepression in the big factories
which in good times employed
thousands of employes.
Continued on Page Fivc
NEWPORT BREAKS
RECORD HANDUNG
CHRISTMAS MAIL
1,000 Packages a Day
Delivered Last Four
Days
Few if any of those whow atch
ed so early for the arrivai of the
Christmas package or message
from farà way friends, realized the
amount of work which this joyous
season makes for the po.t office
employecs and carriers.
In a recent inten'iew with the
Ncwport postmaster, I). R. Stetson
lie stated that this year Christmas
business was the larger-t in the his
tory of the ofrice. Over 55,000 let
tera and postai card passed
through the cancelling machine
and mailed during the six days of
Christmas week. One thousand
packages a day were delivered dur
ing the last four days of the week.
Mr. Stetson also sani that the
ackages were received this year' To pick any individuai star from
in much bettcr condition, well Mie Un men that performed would
wrapped and tied, properly ad-1 have taken an export. Lucky Fisk
dressed with name of sender as . Puss Connor and Curley Burns in
well as the address. This is due the forward positions were prodi
pei'haps to the repeated admoni- gies of strength and agility. Puss
tions and directiot-.s (josted outside failed to tally a field goal, and
for the education of patrons. The Ioslant did not get a Ione point,
total number of packages for the , but never have two men played
week preceeding Christmas day
was approximately 8,000. j
The amount of stamps sold for
the year will ma at least $."5,000 .
over that ot last year. I he busi-1
ness tor the week averageu over
SlOO a day more than that of the
sani; week in 1021.
The deliveries were made in
good time and with very little de-
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MANAG
THE LITTLE FELLOW GETS THE CLOSEST
SHAVE
ALLCOLLEGJANS
LOSETO COMPANY
DIN FAST CONTEST
Visito rs Give Locals
Worse Scare of
Year
Facing from the start, an attack
that at any timo during the game
threatened to swamp them, the
Company I) basketeers in a last
final spurt in which the name of
Dumas figured in the leading role
defeated the New Hampshire AH
Collegians by the score of 1!) to 1G
at the Armory last night.
Never in the cimala of scale
town basketball has a locai team
had to work harder for the points
gained than last night. The visit
ors coming bere v.rth a reputation
l for winning, but underestimated to
some extent by the locals, played
a game that will go down in his
tory as the greatest game ever
seen on the Armory floor. From
the minute that refe ree Kanney
blew his whistle Tor the opening
dash until the big gong sounded
for the end of the game it was a
contest so rcplete with thrills that
the fans used thicr seats only as a
place to .stand.
The credit for the game goes to
none other than the originai Du
mas. With one minute left to go
and the score tied l(i t-o K "Whit
ey" dashed from his position as
the ball was tossed up and .eized a
snappy pass from his big running
mate Goslant. Doóging an oppos
ing guard and while beyond the
middle of the floor from his bas
ket, like the proverbiai "Steve"
Brody he took a chance and made
it.
harded ball and considenng that
their opponents were two of the
fastest men that have ever invaded
the tepce of the St. Johnsbury
warnors il is not at ali strange.
Both Goslant and Dumas outmd
themsclves, and it was due to the
seemingly untiring etforts of these
great guards that the score was
not reversed.
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I HP
NO HINDREXCE TO
BIG YEAR AHEAI)
WASHINGTON, Dee. 2'. Stock
taking of the nation's domestic
business for the past year gives a
feeling of satisfaction according
to a statement issued by the De
partment of Commerce. "There
are no serious obstacles in sigili,
which should hinder further ad
vances in the early new year," con
tinues the repoit. Optisi.-m bori
pf the acconiplishments of the
past,. which offìeiais regard as a
remarkable strengthening of the
economie fabric, was cvident
throuirhout and the report called
attention to the fact that the pro
duction of manufactured commi
dities was 50 per cent larger than
in 1921. While the unsettled con
ditions in the foreign countiies,
particularly in Europe, are stili do
pressing and to some extent have
set the prices of aei'icultui-al pro-duct-;
below the leve 1 of other com
modities, these lowering conditions
have been somewhat relieved with
in the last two months.
BUY CIGARETS
FOR MILLION ROUBLES
MOSCOW, Dee. 2!t American
made cigarets are now on sale
bere for about .-;ie million soviet
roubles each. The Hussian i-ouhle
has been fluctuallng to such an
extent that it has become a com
mon oecurrence for denlers tn
hoost many articles billions of
roubles over night.
COURTS TO SETTLF
IPISH COMSULATE FIGHT
NEW YORK. lw. 2) An ami
cubie arrangeniifnt which jirecludes
vioIe"ce bu' pernii'-: picVetip-r vas
in elfect todav at the Irish Consu
late here, which has been beseiirod
by Irish Rppuhlican-; since Wed
nesday night when I.indsay Ciaw
ford with olficial papers ipnoin
ing bini Kree State consul took
over the office, Robert Prisco, who
rlaims he is a member of the Irish
Republi''an ai-niy occupied one
room of the office for the Repuhli
cans and Mr. Crawford sat at a
desk in another room representing
the Free State. It was indicatel
that this arrangement would pre
vali until the matter could be set
tled in the court. -s.
FORMER SULTAN IS I
GOING TO MECCA I
MALTA, Dee. 2!t Fornici- Sul-'
tan Mohanimed VI of Turkey, it j
is understood will b ave for Mecca
r,vt Monday ahoard a British war
ship. He will presumably be land
ea at Jedilan, the port of Mecca
on the Red S'.i.'..
EK
By MORRIS
OLD-TIME
HACK DRIVER
IS DEAD
Lothrop H. Lucas Famil
iar Figure In St. Johns
bury Many Years
A familiar figure has )iasse( out
of St. Johnsbury in the person of
Lothrop H. Lucas who died Thurs
day afternoon a: St. Johnsbury
hospital following a brief illness of
pneumonia. l'or many years before
the advent of automobiles and fot'
years after the Lucas back driven
by "Lote" Lucas as he was famil
iarly called, was the first sight to
greet the eye at the railroad sta
tion. When the hacks gave way to
the taxis, Mr. Lucas clung to his
borse an antiquated vehicle and
continued his hacking business un
til two months ago. For the past
few years he had lived alone in his
house on Hastings Hill with occa
sionai visits to il is children. He
was found in his home alone Tues
day quite seriously ili and was tak
en to the hosiptal. Pneumonia de
veloped and the end carne about
four oclock Thursday.
Mr. Lucas bdonged to one of
the old families of this section. He
was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alonzo Lucas Of Peacham and was
born in that place 7i years ago. He
carne when a young man to St.
Johnsbury and the remainer of his
lif'e w as spent here, many years
of it in the house on Hastings Hill
where he was found alone su ser
iously ili. The Lucas family home
was on upper Main Street the
site where now stands the hand
some residence of Mr. and Mrs.
James Cosgrove.
About '' years ago Mr. Lucas
married Miss Catherine Peck of
Danville and six children were
boln to them, two dying in in
fancy. The survhcrs are Alonzo of
St. Johnsbury, Mary, wife of Karl
Iionnett of Springfield, Mass.,
Emily, wife of Clyde Drown of St.
Johnsbury and Etnei, wife of A.
-. Carter of Hoiyoke, Ma.-s. Mrs.
Lucas died nine years ago. One of
a largo family Mr, Lucas is sur
vived only by twe Drothers, David
Lucas of Marshtield and Frank
Lucas of Pasadena, Calif.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon at 2. "Il at
Grate Methodist church and burial
will bc in Mt. l'Ica ant rcmttcry. )
PLAN
Schooner Wrecked, Railroads
Tied Up and Three Fatalities
DEATH CLAIMS
SKILLFUL
Lucius Freeman Frye
Was Native of
Concord
L. F. Frye, jeweler of 87 Rail
roal Street, died at his home, 5 Mt.
Pleasant Street, Friday morning,
after a long period of failing
health. He had been in poor health
for a long time, had often been
unable to be at his place of busi
ness, but not until within the la.st
few weeks has h;s condition been
the subject of serious concern. For
the last week he has failed rapid
ly and the end carne suddenly.
Lucius Freeman Frye was born
in Concord, 52 years ago, the- son
of George C. and Lucella Frye. He
was nained for Lucius Freeman
for many years the town clerk in
the town of Waterford. Mr. Frye'.s
father was for many years town
clerk in the town of Concord.
Hi.s brother, Clinton G. Frye,
now deputy county clerk of Cale
donia county, St. Johnsbury. was
also born in Concord, as was their
half-sister, Jennie A. Gilbert, who
died in San Diego, California,
some twenty years ago.
After the death of Mr. Frye'.s
father, his mother married Albro
F. Nichols, then practicing law in
Concord, and later the family mov
ed to St. Johnsbury, and Mr.Frye
has sineo made his home on Mt.
Pleasant Street, his home.
Mr. Frye graduated from St.
Johnsbury Academy in the class
of 18!K, after which he spent a
year in Denver, Colorado. After
a thoi-ough course in watchmaking
in Waltham, Mass., he entered
the jewelry sto re of the late Thad.
M. Spencer, where he remained
for a long time, becoming except
ionally well skilled in ali branches
of the business under Mr. Spenc
Continued on Page Four
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
r ELI IN AQUILA '
ROME, Dee. 20 An earthquake !
shock was felt at Avezzano in the '
province of Aquila this afternoon
iiccording to a message received
here. No damage was reported. '
EXPECTS ARRESTS IN
MOREHOUSE PARISH CASE
MONTOE, Louisiana, Dee. 29
Sheriff Cai-jienter of Morehouse
Parish today declared there would
be arrests jn the Morehouse kid- 1
nappi ng investigations upon ,the
return of the federai investigators,
who were in New Orleans yester
day uttending a conference with
state officiaìs. . He said he had
no reliable inforniation relative to
the alleged confessions of two!
persons involving forty-five citi-1
ztns. i
IN ECUADOR
REVOLUTION
Former St. J. Boy Says It
Started With Railroad
Strike
Will W. Morse, a former St.
Johnsbuiy boy, who is now Vice
Consul for the United States at
(ìuayiK'ji!, Ecuador, has written
his sisi - . , Miss Flora E. Morse,
under date of Dee. 2 and the fol
lowing description of present con
ditions in that South Americen re
public will interest our readers:
"Wo bave passed through a so
cial erisis in Ecuador, especially in
Guayaquil. It began with a strike
on the railroad for higher wages,
followed by strikes of the lighting
and Street car companies in Guaya
quil, so that for several days there
were no lights and no Street cars;
then a general strike was called,
stores and factories ali closed and
business suspended. The erisis
was reached on Nov. l."i, when
many stores were broken into by
the mob and sacked, who also at
tacked and disarmed some of the
police. The soldiers were called
out to quell the riot, and only after
about 2.")0 of the mob had been kil
led n i as many more wounded,
was order restored. At one time
some of the mob surged around
(Continued on page two)
SUCCESS
Storm Blows Out To Sea
and Is Central Today Off
N. E. Coast
(By the Associated Press)
BOSTON, Dee. 29 The Northeast blizzard that swept
over most of New England last night had blown itself out
early today leaving one schooner wrecked on Cape Cod, rail
roads, trolley and steamship services disturbed and
. at least three fatalities. For
RAILROADS IN
BATTLE WITH
HUGEDRIFTS
Trains Outlawed and Mail
Carriers Are
Delayed
Huge drifts in the cuts through
which it took two engines to push
through the snow plow were nec
essary. Swirling snow that carne so
thickly that the pilots of the en
gines were not visible, were the
tales brought back by railroad men
who have been battling their way
during the past 24 hours in the
worst storm that has visited
Northern New England this year.
Trains arrivine at the .station
this morning tohi oniy too plainly
the difficulties tha: rad men have
had to surmount during the past
twentv four hours. Engines were
coated with ice, as were tho wheels
of the cars. Car tops were piled
high with snow, and trainmen
muffled to the cars to withstand
the chilling blasts that are sweep
ing through the hilly country, be
spoke of hours of battling with
the elements in their vain attempts
to get their trains through on time.
'irain 7706 from Cambridge
Junction to St. Johnsbury, la.st
night found such drifts that it was
necessary to leavo their milk cars
at Hardwick, and Engine 2001 was
.sent from bere this morning to
bring them in. They arrivcd
around ten thirty snow laden and
ice coated.
The snow plow over the St.
Johnsbury and Lake Champlain
road this moming was equipped
with two engines, and reported as
much as two. feet of snow in the
cuts, that they saw no traffic on
the main highway, and that the
wind was blowing at the rate of
70 miles an hour in Walden and
DanvUle.
The extra tra in from White Riv
er to Newport which left White
Continued on last page
VOTERS and TAX PAYERS
Do you want a better governed town?
Do you want your moncy's worth for tht
taxes you pay?
Do you want to know who the kickers aio
against a well-managed town?
Do you want to know where the town man
ager pian, as advocated by Mr. George Cald
beck, is a big success?
Do you want to know just liow St. Johns
bury at its village meeting next Wcdnesday, can
adopt the town manager pian?
There are no ifs and ands and buts about
this infonnation.
Mr, Arthur F. Stone, editor of the Caledonian-Record,
has just returned from an investi
gation of the town manager pian in Springfield,
Vt, where he formerly lived and where he
knows personally most of the leading eitizens
and business men. He will write a series of
three articles, beginning today, on just how the
town manager pian works out.
Don't fail to read every one of the articles.
Then make up your mind how you want to vote
at the Village meeting on Wcdnesday.
a storm so severe velocities
of 70 miles an hour being reported
in some places and the fall of snow
approaching two feet in others
its effeets were considere'l light.
The wrecking of the schooner An
nie L. Spindler, near the tip of
Cape Cod was the only stoi-m cas
ualty of importance along the New
England coast.
The municipal steamer Monitor
used in transporting prisoners to
the House of Correction ut Deer
Island, was blown across Doston
Harbor and fetched up high and
dry. There was no one uboard.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 2!) The
storm that has been sweeping the
Middle and North Atlantic co:-t
was reported today by the weather
N'reau to W centered cast of Cape
Cod and moving northeasi
ward. Storm warnings remained
displayed from C?pe Hatteras to
Eastport, Me.
PUOVINCETOWN, Mass., Dee.
2! The schooner Annie L. Spind-
lei- of Yarmouth, N. S., was wreck
ed at Race Point today and the
crew of six men rescued bv brcccli
es buoy. It was reported that tho
vessel was loaded with liquor.
Capt. Collins of the Cost p,v.ivl
crew which rescued the schoonev
said he had no officiai knowledgo
of the contents of the boat.
The schooner was high and dry
at half tide apparently with 'Mie
chance of being floated. He. .ar
go hnwever, can he saved. The
captain and crew were exhaustcd
from their hours of exposuie.
NEW YORK, Dee. 20 The
steamer Monmouth from Boston
to Norfolk is water logged :ind in
distress in a terrific gale olT Capo
May. Coast guard savers have
just put out to her assistance.
SALEM, Mass., Dee. 2'.l l'or
the second successive day t rat fio
on the Boston and Maine wa
blocked for a time by a minor a -cident
near the Salem station cari;,
this morning. The accident oc
curred wdien a shifting eiv.vmo
struck a corner of a freiglit tram
'.Continued on last pc"
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