Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-10-07

fO0C WOOD IN less IMAM ~ hours ItCeuI-
ly. No doubt there are many others
who can do it behind the stove at the
store.
r. w. Pullman of the forest service
says that $40, 10000, 90 worth of timber
has been destroyed by the fires thus
far this fall. This will certainly have
a tendency to send the price of lumber
back to it's price before the money
tie-up last fall if not to figure even
higher than then. Timber is timber
nowadays.
It's a disagreeable scrap Montpelier
and Goddard seminaries got into over
athletics. It's the climax of spirited
rivalry and will not. we believe, result
in a benefit to either school,, All.
secondary schools should so conduct
their sports that there Is no chance
whatever for charges : of profession
alisml.o It may however in the end re- e.
suit in cleaner athletics in all ]secon--
diary Schools .,- ',''' 49,. 81
-tToJ ,1~E9y III EEV trasGET t4L3S- x
We don't expect the members Of the;
LEGISLATURE from Orleans county VIII
stand for a bill that is said to be on
the road to < the coming Legislature.
1t will provide for d large sum Of mon-
ey annually to keep the state fair
going. When local fairs have to run.
on their own hook an d with only the
aid of loyal and pdblic spirited meniit
is unfair to ask The State to appropri-.
ate large sums to go to one place and
one fair, which will eventually close
the gates of all local fairs. Why not
give this appropriation equally to
several fairs spread about. the state
one in each county for instance?
Really wouldn't more people benefit
by it?
Several weeks :, ago the Monitor
printed a number of facts regarding
trouble between some cream separator
companies and Sears, Roebuck & Co.
In recent number of q trade journal
we note also that, they have been in
dicted for fraudulent use of the mails,
in the federal courts of Des g. Monies.
1t is also stated by this journal. that
as a, result Of these. two frauds the
business of S. r. has fallen off at the
rate Of 81, 222, 900 per month and the
statement it claimed to haveIbeen natt
by some of the officers of the company
that they expect business to fall of
more the coming year. 1t is fguret
that in few years at this rate thei
business will fall to the $4,000, 90
mark. The journal from which W,
are quoting then says:
Any business man knows that larg
concerns are built upon a certain eS
pense basis. For instance Sears, Roe
buck & Co., with its immense buiie
ings and immense equipment, are bui
5like $50, 90 year While they ca
discharge a percentage of their en-
aployes, yet there is certain per Ger
Of expense that absolutely can not
decreased. Whenever the volume
business can not stand to carry this u
avOidabie expense, then there is bour
to be reckoning, and the Journal b
Iieves Sears, Roebuck & Co tn
very day, are in exactly this conc
ton. It has been reported to us
three different occasions that the CO
Germ was now in the hands of thr
gentlemen who are endeavoring
arrange the business. looking to it h
ing placed in the hands Of receive
While this is only report coming
us. the fact that it has come sevel
times rather indicates that there
something doing:
1t really looks as though our Is "
prediction as the limit Of their be-
in business was not bad guess.
Harry E. Jones OF Tampa, Fla, writes