Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-27


minutes. The structure was very
old one and was soon destroyed. The
building was valued at $4,000, while
the furnishings and library were worth
about S1O.0 900. The principal, Rev. C.
H. Dunton, was in Saratoga, N. Y,
attending the Troy Methodist confer
ence when the fire occurred. The
school was maintained by the Metho-
dist Episcopal church and is well
known among members of that denomi
nation in New England and eastern New
York.
Growth of Vermont Oranges.
State Master George w. Pierce of
Bratteboro reports that 81 subordinate
Oranges have been organized in the
state in the past IL months. three have
been reorganized and several more
revived The charter membership of
new Oranges is nearly 5000 and seve-
raj have doubled in membership since
organization. There are now 100 sub
ordinate and Is Pomona Oranges in
Vermont, two Pomona Oranges hav-
ing been organized the past year. Six
teen of the new Oranges were organized
East Sandwich, N. H., II by State
by National Organizer C. B. Hoyt of
Organizer George C. Flint of Ran
dolph. There was an average atten-
dance of 200 at the winter meetings
held with the Oranges by the state
board of agriculture. E. M. Pike of
Mendon has been appointed the official
reporter for the National Grange pa
per, published in Philadelphia. State
Master Pierce was elected one OF the
executive committee of the New Eng
land conference on rural progress at
the annual meeting of the association
in Boston. Protective Grange Of
Brattleboro will celebrate its 35th ami
versary May 20. State Master Carlton
D. Richardson of Massachusetts and
State Master Pierce will be among the
speakers, and the third and fourth de-
grees will be exemplifed
A Statement to the Democratic Voters
of Vermont.
The Vermont branch of the Demo-
cratic Progressive League of New En-
gland, believing that Hon. William j.
Bryan, of Nebraska, is the strongest
and most logical candidate for the
democratic party to nominate for presi-
dent of the United States, hereby calls
upon all democrats of Vermont who
favor Mr.. Bryan's nomination to coop
crate with them to accomplish that re-
suit. By his high personal character,
his patriotism, his great ability, which
has been recognized both at home and
abroad, his able advocacy of the great
democratic principle of "eQual rights
for all and special privileges for none, 3"
we have in Mr.. Bryan the ideal demo-
cratic candidate. AS vote-getter, Mr..
Bryan is not the failure that his politi-
cal opponents in and out of the party
are trying to picture him. The whole
situation is we'll summed up in re-
cent editorial in The New Haven
! Conn., Union, when it says that Mr..
Bryan is one million votes stronger be-
fore the people than any other demo
crat, that if nominated he will be
elected, and that his political enemies
who wish to destroy him, and are now
resorting to all means, fair and unfair,
to control one-third of the delegates to
the national convention, believe with
us that if he receives the nomination
he will be elected, and the last glim-
mering hope left to the assistant repub.
majority by hanging on to the two.
thirds rule. not with the hope of &C
complishing anything except to divide
and disrupt the democratic forces anC
keep the democratic party from goine
to power. We believe that Mr.. Bryan
is the choice of large majority of tn
, democrats Of Vermont as their candi
date for president. With the methot
? of nominating candidates now in use
the only opportunity the voter has t.
, express his choice is to attend his loca
caucus for the election of delegates t.
the state and district conventions, an
there register his choice by sending t.
. these conventions delegates who ar
favorable to the candidate he desire
, to see nominated. We would therefor
+ urge all democrats of Vermont favor
g able to Mr. Bryan's nomination to at
: tend their town or city caucus, and Civ
8 their support to delegates who Wi
r work in the state and district conver
e lions for Mr.. Bryan's interests.
!, Vermont Branch Of the Democrat
r Progressive League of New England
By G. Herbert Pape, president.
% LETTER TO NJ J.SMITH,
BARTON, VT.