Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-10
VICINITY ITEMS.
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Local Postmasters' Pay.


nounced the readjustment of post
masters salaries for Vermont and
Rhode Island, which will take effect
July /. There are "a changes in YER
mont. Those in nearby offices are as
follows: The postmaster at Lyndon
vile will have a salary of $500, which
is reduction of $500, due to the fall
ing off in postal business there. The
following salaries vera raised 500
each: Barton Landing and Island
Pond to $500; Hardwick to $1,000;
Newport to $1,000.
Boston & Maine to Test Constitutionality
of New Law.
Among the several acts of the legis-
lature of 1906, the constitutionality of
which are questioned, is Act No. 124,
which provides that railroad COM
panies, except street railroad COM
panies, doing business in this state
shall grant equal privileges to all
telephone companies in the state,
having not less than 500 telephone
connections, for installing telephone
instruments in the railroad stations.
Not long ago the Peoples Telephone
company of Orleans county, having
about 1000 subscribers, applied to the
Boston & Maine Railroad company for
the privilege of installing an instru-
ment in the station at Barton Land
ing. The request was refused. The
railroad company claims that it has
an exclusive contract with the New
England Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany, made before the passage of the
act and that the act impairs the obi
cation of that contract. The railroad
company further claims that the act
requires it to devote its property to
another use than that re quired in it's
charter and is therefore unconstitu
tional States Attorney Edwin A.
Cook, of Newport, and Attorney
General @. c. Fits Of Brattleboro,
filed an information against the rail-
road company at Especial term of Or
leans county court May 81. The case
was tried by the court and judgment
of guilty, pro forma, was made. The
case will be heard by the supreme
court at the October term.
The New Passumpsic Telephone Co.
The Passumpsic Telephone company
is a new Vermont corporation which
has acquired the interests in Gale
donia, Orleans and Essex counties of
the New England Telephone and Tel
egraph company. The board of d.
rectors includes g. H. Prouty of New
port, M. M. Taplin of Barton Landing,
E. NJ. Taft and George Q. Carey of st.
Johnsbury, who constitute a majority
of the board. @. A. Brown of New
port is the general manager. The
! new company will start with about
5000 subscribers; its territory in
cludes the towns of Barnet, Waterford,
Danville, Concord, Kirby, Stannard,
st. Johnsbury, Lyndon, Victory,
CRANKY, Burke, Wheelock, Sheffield,
Sutton, East Haven, Ferdinand, New
ark, Barton, Westmore, Bloomington,
Irasburg, Lowell, Westfield, Jay,
Troy, Newport, Coventry and Darby.
Affiliated with the Passumpsic com
pany, as heretofore with the New En-
gland company, are Sub-Licensees of
the latter, with about 600 subscribers,
in Greensboro and Glover, Holland,
I Norton, Morgan, Brighton, Charles
ton and vicinity. The toll lines of
the New England Telephone and Tel
egraph company will connect with
the Passumpsic company's switch
boards at the principal points and
continue to furnish the present SER
vice to the towns and cities of the
outside world. The Passumpsic COM
pany has in the territory from st.
Johnsbury to Newport, with its mum
erous thriving, neighboring towns,
one of the best telephone fields in New
England. Throughout its length and
breadth, the telephone habit is grow
ing, and with the new organization
the intimate personal contact of the
management with the people and the
thorough knowledge of local needs
the service is destined to become ever
more attractive.
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