Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1912 — Then They Hit Up the Sirup. [ARTICLE]

Then They Hit Up the Sirup.

"While on a western tour in connection with certain investigations of the committee on Indian aff&irs, Senator Carroll E. Page of Vermont happened to get in conversation with a man. at Ashland, Wis. "Prom Vermont V chuckled the man. "Why, I was born at Swan ton, Vt." "So was I,” said the senator^fjg "My father ran a store on Howto.,-; ant's row in Swanton.’’ "So did mine," replied the Vermont senator. "My father dealt in hides and wool." "So did mine," echoed the senator. “My father was a member of the firm of Page, Sanborn * Co." “So was mine," cried Senator Page, with a twinkle in his eye "Shake!" And they "shook" heartily. In this unexpected way the sons of the old Vermont partners had met after 40 years, and tradition has It that they went off quietly am in urn for a feast of maple sirup, in memory of childhood days at Swanton in toe old Green Mountain state.—Joe Chappie’s News-Letter.