Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-03-16

The friends of Gen. F. G. Butterfield
of Derby Line will bring him forward
for delegate to the Chicago convention.
He is good man for the position
Island Pond Herald.
We are not hearing SO much about
opposition to the reelection OF Con-
gresham Haskins as we did few
weeks ago. There are increasing indl-
cations that the sober judgment OF the
republicans of the second district will
return Colonel Haskins without serious
delay. -Bellows Falls Times.
One Of the meanest, low-lived, sneak
ing individuals is that man who will
furnish liquor to boy. If there's any
chance of catching the man who did it
in Barre recently the authorities
should not relax their efforts in the
least. Having got him, give him as
good as the youngster got in the case
because he in turn furnished to his boy
companions. Times.
Hon. O. S. Annis of North Troy,
who has been elected a member of the
Amory Dawson, now deceased, so long
identified with the committee work, is
no new figure in Vermont politics. In
the stirring days of 1902 when the big
vote of the local option party held up
an election by the people and threw it
into the General Assembly it was Annis
as chairman of the joint canvassing
committee who dealt the Clement men
the solar picks blow when they de-
manded the votes. Clement appeared
before the committee with counsel and
strove in every way to have the COM
mittee call for the votes of the towns,
and if he had succeeded in doing this
the committee would have been count
ing them yet. But the senator from
Orleans county wouldn't listen to
Clements petition The ear that he
turned was deaf. They were there to
count the votes in the d-fashioned
way and not to take advice, and if the
Clement men didn't like it they had
the courts to go to for relief. Annis
handled the matter so effectively for
the Mccullough side and carried out
the program so cleverly that he was
warmly congratulated by straight-line
republicans on every hand, and in an
hour the little man from Orleans as
sumed size of pretty big proportions.
Now he steps into the position of state
committeeman and assumes the lead
ership of Orleans county, undoubtedly
IS recognition and reward Of that
battle of the ballots. Montpelier Ev-
ening Argus.
The announcement that Lester c.
French Of Brattleboro has been chosen
editor of ''The Engineering Journal, -
published by the American Society OF
Mechanical Engineers in New York,
recalls that Vermonters are already
quite prominent in the conduct of en-.
cheering periodicals, notably on 1.-THE
Engineering News" one of the stand
ard journals Of the sort and also pub
lished in New York city. The manag
ing editor Of this latter periodical is
c.. w. Baker and one of the associate
editors is M. N. Baker, both Vermont
ers and both graduates of the Univer
sity of Vermont. Another Vermontel
who, if we are correct, occupies a re
sponsible place on scientific maya
zine of like nature in Chicago is Mer
ton C. Robbins, also of Brattleboro
and, like the Bakers, graduate of thu
engineering department OF the STATE
university.
That the new editor of "The Engi
neering Journal goes into the worl
with a natural aptitude is indicated b!
the fact that he is the son of O. L
French, publisher of the Brattlebor'
Phoenix, itself of high standard O.
excellence in it's kind of publication
Moreover, the younger French is ;
graduate of the Massachusetts Insti
: tute Of Technology and he was TO
nine years prior to 1906 engaged as ed
itor of Machinery" published by thu
Industrial Press of New York. Sine
leaving that work he has been writins
, scientific treatises and building up
business in publication of technica
books in Brattleboro. So he goes int
the new position at the head of tn
THE Engineering Journal amply for
titled by training and experience =
Barre Times.