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HE erection of memorials 

 to the memory of the de- 

 parted is a custom as old 

 as the ages. A custom as sub- 

 lime as it is venerable — linking-, 

 as it does, the past with the 

 future — the earthly life with the 

 life to come. 



IT is unfortunate but true, 

 however, that the heart prompt- 

 ings of our forefathers which 

 moved them to place in their 

 burying grounds evidences of 

 their love, were not always 

 guided by proper advice in the 

 selection of materials that would 

 withstand the destructive in- 

 fluences of time. 



CO it is that, in many of our 

 older cemeteries, many monu- 

 ments and markers bearing the 

 noblest sentiments have crum- 

 bled and broken away, and the 

 records which they were erected 

 to perpetuate are lost. 



ODAY, in nearly every 

 hamlet and town in this country, 

 there is a reliable man who can 

 guide you properly in the selec- 

 tion of material. He is the 

 local dealer in memorials. It is 

 his business to know the relative 

 time and weather resisting qual- 

 ities of various stones — their 

 cost — the proper method of 

 setting — the appropriateness of 

 different designs — and how and 

 of what material they can best be 



executed. He is a dealer in 

 sentiment in the rough. 



/\S the average man or woman 

 purchases a memorial only twice 

 in a lifetime, it would seem com- 

 paratively easy for the dealer 

 to consider the selection of ma- 

 terial as of little importance so 

 long as the customer was 

 pleased in design. But, so 

 highly do the majority of these 

 men regard their calling that, 

 in nearly half a century of sup- 

 plying them with "Rock of 

 Ages," we have had little or 

 no evidence of cases in which 

 they have recommended or sold 

 imperfect stones. 



1 N fact, so much pride do they 

 take in their work that, in spite 

 of constant enlargement of our 

 facilities, it is still with difficulty 

 that we can keep pace with 

 their demands. 



W E do not mean to imply 

 that "Rock of Ages" is the 

 only time and element resisting 

 material. But its qualities are 

 so well known it has made us 

 the largest producers in the 

 Barre district — the Granite 

 Center of the World. And this 

 despite the fact that the local 

 dealer in memorials in many 

 cases when he has recommended 

 and specified ' 'Rock of Ages, ' ' 

 could have substituted a less du- 

 rable material at profit to himself. 



These facts are printed here that you may ha<ve a better con- 

 ception of the integrity and highmindedness of the dealer in 

 memorials. We wish, also, to express a feeling of keen 

 appreciation of the service he renders his community and 

 the country at large, in perpetuating the finest sentiments 

 and best traditions of our land. 



WELL, MILNE 



Department H X3i^ Montpelier, Vermont 

 Quarries at "Barre, "Vermont - HKe Granite Center of the "World 



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