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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

The farmer that shows the good
Judgment to advertise Vermont ma
pie sugar cakes for sale, will tell you
that the number of automobile parties
that are touring Vermont are very
profitable. Some farmers are picking
up snug little sums by advertising
iced milk for sale. Get the habit
Waterbury Record.
The board of agriculture's book,
"Vermont-19O7," is certainly getting
its knocks good and plenty from the
state press and few there are who
have good word to say about it,
The Brattleboro Rsformer is especial
ly sarcastic in it's description of the
book, heading it's editorial article
Barton, 1902 If one-half tue
vital energy is expended to make the
next number an Improvement on the
! present one which is now being con-
/ sumed in knocking, the book will be
| of untold value to the state.-Ver-
gennes Vermonter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
VICINITY ITEMS.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
Trial of Howard Case.

The case against George T. Howard
of Craftsbury, former state railroad
commissioner, growing out of alleged
excessive expense charges made by
him, stands for trial at the September
term of Orleans county court, which
is the first term at which the case
could have been tried.
Work on New Railway Being Rushed.
Work on the Oxford Mountain rail
way between Mansonville, P. @ ar d
North Troy is rapidly progressing.
Some so or more men were added to
the grading gangs recently, making a
total force OF about $50. Construction
work is now under way on the mead
rs of E eazer Broe's farm, two miles
from North Troy village.
Ernest Ranney of Lyndonvi lie Drowned.
Ernest Ranney, employed at Webb's
hotel stable in Lyndonville, was
drowned while bathing in the Pas
sumpsic river, Sunday afternoon,
August IL. Ranney was not an expert
swimmer and being caught in al under
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

1907 has been compiled by the Hon.
Q. W. Gates of Franklin, state high
way com missioner. The first column
of the following table shows the
amount derived from the regular five
per cent tax distributed on the basis
of mileage, while the second column
shows the amount which is obtained
under the new law of 1906, one half of
which is paid by the town and one
half by the state. The total of the
amounts in the two columns is the
available sum for each town.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all oCher diseases put together
and until the last few years it was supposed to
be incurabe For great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from IL drops to a teaspoonful 1t acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it tails to cure. Send for circu-
lars and testimonials.
Address. F. j. CHENEY g. co, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, price z5c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

Everyone in the state should read
the following from the Express and
Standard. Esp cially do we want
Barton people to read it. What about
a summer hotel anyway? We need
one. Are we going to have ii?
A New Yorker, with companions,
was in town last week and called upon
us to see about stopping at some no
tel around the lake. We mentioned
what few little ones there were, but
they were not the kind wanted. SIS
there not frst-class hotel at Tack 4
.Llnding?" one asked. We answered
Ia. the negative, as we had described
She pretty little Bail retreat before.
"Where is the Mountain house?" was
asked. Burned" was my reply
"What about WiIloughby lake?" pick
ing up our souvenir book of the To-
cality and looking it ov r. We re-
ferred to the hotel burned and the
one in running order. ''Not good
enough" was the reply. "And you
are building a clubhouse hereW one
remarked. eyes" And advertising
the lakes9o eyes" "Well, you Yer
monters have queer way of doins
things" the latter continued. "Yol
begin at the wrong end of the rope
New Workers. would build the hoUe
first and then do the advertising
afterwards This was a just crit
cism and Vermonters should think
over.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
AGAIN.

The MONITOR doesn't want any its
readers to misc all the nice % things
the state papers continue to say
about the Barton Development asso-
citation and the vermont 1907 book
let. Here is what the Vergennes
Vern onter says:
IL Barton and the region immedi-
ately contiguous thereto fails TO ex-
peTience a big boom in the near tu-
ture it won't Ue the fault of the state
board of agriculture and the value
of printers ink as an advertising
medium will be small. Barton in the
meanwhile is hugging itself for pure
10y, as in addition to taking up the
most valuable part of the book 'Ver-
mont-1907," Eis getting lot of free
advertising from the state press.
Lucky Barton.
Then comes the Brattleboro Re-
former with a long editorial headed
"Barton 1907" 1t is rather amusing
to hear Brattleboro squeal when for
once she didn't get "whole hog" Of
course nine times in ten Brattleboro
Rhould have more free advertising,
more candidates, more big berries,
and more bouquets than any other
town in the state, but it seems to US
that the tenth time some other town
could get this glory without Brattle-
boro feeling slghted. But of course
it's got to be sort of a habit with
Brattleboro to have everything its
way and it comes mighty hard to see
anyone else get anything. However
here's the advertising the ReformeI
gives Us:
Vermont, as set forth in the volumi-
nous document just issued by the
state board of agriculture, is beau
tiful but sparsely populated and very
narrow strip OF land surrounding
Willoughby lake, whose charm is &c
subtle and atmosphere so invigoratins
that its overhanging mountains ap-
Lear "peopled with forms anC
features fantastic" There are in the
state number of counties but the
ohly one of any importance lie Orleans
The most important town IN thi'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

county is Barton and its chief claim to
distinction is the fact that it is th9
home of the Barton Development as
ISOLATION. although we are told that
the metropolis boasts also OF 'tba-e
ball association, ? tennis club and A
good band.~ In the portions of Or
leans county that do not border di-
rectly on Willoughby lake may be
found other bodies of waters, among
them Memphremagog, Caspian, Sey-
mour, Echo and Crystal lake.. These
are worth mentioning, howeve.,
principally because they lie near Bar
ton and its several miles OF concrete
sidewalks.
The outlying territory of the state,
j. e., that out of reach of Barton, is
divided into IL counties, but little of
the scenery within this area is worthy
of Photographic reproduction when
compared to that in the vicinity of
Willoughby lake. Nor is there much
to be said concerning these rural pre-
cincts. Addison county, to be sure,
has a village called Vergennes ana
Bennington county a hamlet known
as Manchester, but com pared TO Bar
ton-shucks! Caledonia and Chit
tenden counties are populated to d
small extent, the thickest settlements
being St. Johnsoury in the former
and Burlington in the latter, yet these
communities are worthy of no de-
tailed description when Gnere is such
a place as Barton on which to ex-
patiate. Essex county is merely a
marrow strip of land away up in the
northeast corner of the state;"
thousands of miles from Barton, il
may be inferred, and therefore cor
respondingIy Insignificant. Grand
Isle county"consistss solely of islands,
while Orange county would be moth
ing but for it's Fairlee. Rutland
couney has a few places worth cursory
reference as have also Washington
and Windsor counties, but they are a
long way off and inaccessible from
Barton.
Windham county wouldn't be worth
mentioning were it not for the fact
that it contains two settlements
Westminster, where the first blood
of the revolution was shed; and Yer
non, which was settled in 1890. Once
upon a time Ghere were two other
counties in the state, Franklin and
Lam ollie; but they have become obso.
lete, at least so much so that they are
not mentioned.
But within the narrow confines oil
the state are opportunities for the
summer resident, the summer visitor
the tourist, the capitalist and the work
ingman. Desirable places close tx
Barton are to be had and there re
mains in the state some real estate
that does not border on Willoughby
lake. Interested persons should sent
to the secretary of the Barton De
velopment associ alton for copy o
vermont, 1907" remitting enough
to cover freight charges. Clubs cal
save money by ordering in carload
lots. As an incentive to prospective
visitors souvenir postcard o
Willoughby lake will be given to eacl
and every person who can find bi
of scenery near Barton that is not re
produced in green ink in the brochure
herewith described.
All this is accepted with thanks
It's good advertising. Just what tn
Development association was forme
for. Application for industries, sum
mer hotels, and railroads receives
by the secretary Of the organization
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
STATE NEWS
Rutland Gambling Resort Raided.

BENZ amin warren, aged 70 years,
paid a fine of $115 and costs in Rutland
city Friday afternoon for maintaining
a gambling resort in that city.
Boy Killed by Bull.
Alexander Schermerhorn, TIVE I've
year old lad whom G. A Cheney, of
Plymouth Five Corners, took from
the orphans home in Burlington last
February, was fatally hurt by a bull
Monday, August 5, living less than
twenty -fourhours after being Injured
Vernon Farmer Shoots Brother.
William Brooks, farmer about 40
years old living at Vernon, was ac-
cidently killed near his home We'd
nesday morning at about II O'Clock
by his bro Their, Eugene, taking for
the purpose a As CALDER rife with a
saety device to prevent a discharge
unless the rife was cooked and iris
pulled The safety device however
was out of order.
CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

1 will mail you free, to prove N 2rit, samples
of my DR.. 5hOop's Restorative. and my book
on either Dyspepsia, The Heart or Fhe Kid
neys Troubles of the Stom ach, Heart or
Kidneys are merely symptoms of a deeper
aiiu MT Don't make the common error of
treating syn ptoms only. Sym ptom treat
meut Is TIRE ating the result Of your ailnent,
and not the cause. Weak stomach nerves
the inside nervts-mean Stoma( h weakness
always. And the Heart, and Kidneys as we l.
hive their controlling inside nerves
Weaken these nerves, and you inevitably
have weak vital oreans Here is where DR.
Shoop Restorative has made its fame. Nc
other re nedy even claims to treat the Inside
nerves" Also for boating, bilious neSs, bad
breath or complexion, use DR.. Shops Re.
stora i've. Write Il to-day for sample I'D
free Book. DIR. Shoop, Racine, Wis. The
Restorative is sold by Kinneys Pharmacy
Barton Landing; +. d. Pierce, Barton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
Sour
Stomach

No appetite, loss OF strength, nervous
ness, headache, constipation, bad breath.
general debility, sour risings, and catarrh
of the stomach are all due to indigestion.
Kodol relieves ind gestion. This new discov-
cry represents the natural juices of diges-
ton as they exist in a healthy stomach,
combined with the greatest known tonic
and reconstructive properties. Kodol for
dyspepsia does not only relieve indigestion
and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy
helps all stomach troubles by cleansing,
purifying, sweetening and Strengthening
the mucous membranes lining the stomach.
Mr.. S. S. Ball. of Rayenswood, W. Va, says
" ! was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years.
kodol cured me and we using it in milk
for baby.
Kodol Digests What You Eat.
Bottles only. Relieves indigestion, sour stomach
belchins of gas, etc.
Prepared by e. G. Dewitt & CO.. CHICAGO
Sold hy f. d. Pierce, Barton, and
Z. ,. Kinney, BartOn lalding.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

A national meeting of the attorney
generals of all the states of the
United States will be called the first
Of October for the purpose of concen-
trating tn ir action in the prosecu-
ton of trusts. John d. will be inter-
ested in this meeting.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

Someone has been mean enough to
remark that the new post card to be
issued soon allowing one to write on
both sides will make the postmasters
a lot more work. The additional
writing will m san more time in read
ing the cards you know.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
Fair week.

Don't fail to read the state item in
this paper regarding Vermont day at
Jamesto wn exposition and the rates
there. As for any information write
@. 8. Forbes of st. Adams, secretary
of the Vermont jamestown commits
sion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

Each ones own duty can never be less
Than possible help for all in distress,
With solace and love in grief and sorrow,
And with hopeful cheer for good tomorrow
CHARLES Edwin wooDMAN.
Somerrille, Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

rermG-waEN PAID srzrcrLr IN ADVANCE
u.0 "a YEAR.
In asking for change OF address, always
state where your paper is Hoto sent.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

Indeed, the one great leading feature OF
our new II lair Vigor may we'll be said to
be this it stops falling hair. Then il
goes one step further-it aids nature in
restoring the hair and scalp TO healthy
condition. Ask for the new kind -
Made by the ]. e. Aver Co., Lowell, Mass
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
Duty.

Have we duty amid all this strife?
Have we words of hope for the weary lifsf
Can our helpful cheer drive these CLOUDS from
sight
And with tender love make all good aad
right?
Will we heed the tears Of grief and sorrow
AID give solace true with bliss to follow,
And TO Others do a. we might require,
with blessing for all and words that inspire?
These mercies we plead for, such good to
share,
Gentle words 20 cheer with k'nd loving care
soothe the aching heart in tones OF gladness,
And give joyful hope in hours Of sadness.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
NOTICE.

Those DESIRING Electrical work done please
cal on Bszsn Clark. Electrician, at sub-sta-
ton, or at office of r. w. y .'dwin, Electrical
Manager. Per o rde9
TRUSTEES BARTON VILLAGE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

VIM. K. ALDRTCH.
Y awyer. Practice in State and y. 5. Courts
Il New England and Peoples telephones
Barton, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

DR.. E. NJ. NICHOLS, BARTON, VT.
E-YE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. x-RAY
u and Electro Therapeutics.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

DR.. r. HASTINGS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BARToa
l. VT. Office at house.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

JOSIAH A. PEARSON,
nENTIST, BARTON, VT. OFFICE In
~ Owens Block.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

RO 3INSON BOSwORFH MD.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office with
i Dr.. y. NJ. Nichols. Residence at Hotel
barton.
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current and perhaps taken with cramps
sank. His companion was unable to
save him. He was aged about 10. He
was the son of Charles Ranney of West
Burke.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-08-19

W. w. REIRDEN,
II AwYER, SEAvER'S BLOCK, BARTON, VI.
IL PEOPLES TELEPHONE.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-05-30

loses Sometimes he wins. Every
man who goes into business CANDLES.
or course, the element OF judgment en-
ters In, but the element of chance can
not be ruled out. Whenever a man
starts out on a railway journey it's
a gamble whether he ever reaches his
destination All life Is a gamble you
see"
In active markets it has not been
unusual for Gates to carry a line of
$25,ooo,ooo or s3o,0O0000 worth Of
stocks on margin. Some of the older
men In the street have tried again
and again to tie him up, but they
have never succeeded. Gates has
always had his eyes open. Where he
couldn't see far enough with his own
eyes, he paid somebody else to look
out for him. No operator in Wall
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-05-30
JOHN w. GATES In
MANY WAYS TRUE
TYPE OF AMERICAN
Few of the Striking Episodes in the Life Of the Great
Plunger Who Has Raked In Some of the Biggest Jack
pots Known to the World of High Finance-Has Had
Many Years of Unvarying Success.

New York.-John w. Gates, the
most picturesque plunger who ever
rose to fame and fortune in Wall
street, has leased great hunting pre-
serve in France, and Is winding up the
business of his House of Twelve
Partners" He is through with Wall
street, writes Frank Fayrant in the
Times When a market operator OF
his prominence quits the speculative
game Immediately after disastrous
panic in the market 1t Is but natural
for the gCssips of the street to say.
They've got him at last" Ever since
Gates began swinging big lines of
stock in bull markets and running
afoul Of men Of great power In Wall
street the deniZens of the street have
shook their heads wisely and said:
They'll get him some day" During
the panicky days of March, when the
rumor mongers were telling of the
huge losses piling up against wealthy
operators, they were sure that the
House of Twelve Partners" was in
deep water. And now that the famous
house, that in big markets has carried
at times S125,000,000 worth of stock
on margin, is going out of business
the rumor mongers are saying: IL
told you So"
But John W. only smiles and says:
II wish they were all as comfortably
fixed as / am" His friends say that
he began trimming his sails last win
ter, when stocks were selling at sky
prices, and that when the storm broke
in March he had all his reefs in.
They say that he actually bought
stocks during the panicky days OF
March, and that banks were carrying
millions of dollars Of free cash for
him when some very wealthy men
were lying awake nights wondering
how they would make their bank bal
ances good the next day. His friends
think that he is worth at least $25 ,000,-
600, and perhaps good deal more.
So John w. isn't exactly broke.
Barbed Wire the Beginning.
1t was in barbed wire that Gates be-
gan to build his fortune. Gates was
a poor farmers boy out west. His
first business venture was contracting
to husk a neighbours corn. From the
money he saved out of this work he
made his first speculation. He bought
a third interest in threshing ma
chine that came rafting across the
prairie after the harvest. The old
farmers shook their heads at this, for
1t was a tradition that the threshing
machine man usually came to finan-
cial grief. But it was year Of bump
er crops, and threshing proved so
profitable that before the winter came
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-05-30

and formed barbed wire trust This
was the nucleus Of the 10000, 0G5
American Steel & Wire company now
part Of the Steel corporation. The
first big flotation engineered by Gates
was the Federal Steel, 100000, 900
corporation. That was in September,
1898, at the beginning OF the great
steel boom following the Spanish.
American war. He followed that with
the American Steel & Wire, with $780,
900, 900 capital, four months later. The
manner in which Gates and Ellwood
brought out this company is character
istic OF the man. On a telephone call
from Plttsburg they jumped across
Pennsylvania and bought a wire mill
at Sharon; then they went 10 Cleve.
land and bought 100000 rolling
mill, and the next day they we're back
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-05-30

idea came to him that If the farmer
would sell him the timber rights he
could fell the hard wood and cut it up
into flrewood to sell to the neighboring
villages. The boy went home after a
tape measure, paper and pencil, and
then back to the woods "timber-look-
ing" Going about the woods, select
ing small areas, counting the hard
woods and measuring them, he got an
idea of the density of the forest. He
sat down on a stump, and by dint of
figuring he made rough estimate of
the number OF cords OF firewood an
acre would yield. Then he went to
the owner to make a bargain He
made an offer for all the timber,
agreeing to pay for it as money came
In from his sales Of firewood.
Il haven't any money" the boy told
the farmer, but you can have my
threshing machine as security"
Go ahead, Johnny; your word is as
good as a government bond"
Gates as a Woodcutter.
All through the winter the lad was
out in the wood lot before daybreak,
working with woodchopper he hired
to help him. The great trees were
felled, sawed into short lengths, and
split into firewood. Young Gates de-
livered two loads of wood day by
sled to the neighboring villages. Be-
fore the snow was of the ground the
woods had been cleared, the owner
had been paid in full, and the boy had
81 900 in the bank. He took this
money and opened a hardware shop
at the neighboring railway junction
He sold the farmers their implements
and machinery. One commodity that
had large sale was the newly in
vented barbed wire. The little hard
ware shop at the junction prospered,
but Gates wanted to do something big
ger He saw that there was money
In barbed wire, and so he sold out his
business and went to see the man, in
an Illinois town, from whom he had
been buying his wire.
This was Col Isaac Elwood, a pion-
eer in the business. He was not look
ing for partners, but he gave the
bright young country shopkeeper a
job as a travelling man for the con-
Germ. Gates travelled back and forth
through the wheat belt selling barbed
wire, and made a reputation as one Of
the best "drummers" on the road.
But he wasn't content with his drum
mer's" commissions. He wanted to
divide the manufacturing profits with
Col. Ellwood. The manufacturer
couldn't see 1t that way, and so Gates
put up barbed wire mill of his own.
His knowledge Of the trade was an