Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-05-12

states STANDARD, Wnlcn means CnaC
tine goods must conform with the la
bells and be at least four years of age.
many wholesale liquor dealers who
have sold goods in Vermont will have
to wait some time before their goods
can be placed on sale. The state lab
oratory force are working on the SAM
pies as fast as possible, but the large
number submitted means that some
dealers will have to wait before the
proper analysis can be made. The
dealers who have sold their liquors in
the state heretofore must also submit
to the analysis to conform with the
new law.
Former Vermonter's Gifts.
DR.. Daniel T. Pearsons. the Chicago
philanthropist. has recovered from an
illness that kept him in hospital a
month. and for the next four months
he will dispose of property enough to
enable him to meet pledges to IA in
situations, among them Montpelier
seminary and Middlebury college.
Montpelier seminary where DR.. Pear
sons was educated 70 years ago, is
having the hardest time of any of the
IA institutions to raise the amount nee
essary to secure the gift pledged to it.
DR.. Pearsons is quoted as saying with
a
ing there for two years to raise $780,
900 in order to be eligible for my offer
of $50, DOC. and now they must toe the
mark just like the other colleges or
they will not get my money
Pastors Institute at St. Johnsbury.
Over so preachers. representing at
least seven denominations, attended
the pastors institute at the North
congregational church at St. Johns
bury last week, which had been ar
ranged by the theological seminaries
of New England to bring the country
pastors into closer touch with the
seminarians and the newer religious
and social movements. The Rev. DIR.
George Hodges, the dean of the Epis-
copal Theological school at Cambridge,
Mass, gave most helpful address to
ministers and President Kenyon L.
Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agri.
cultural college at Amherst, Mass,
spoke on the relation of the minister
to the rural problem. The Rev. DR..
w. w. Fem, dean of the Harvard Div.
Unity school, spoke on ''The Realism
Of Jesus" A helpful feature of the
first institute was the presence of the
Rev. DR.. Owen H. Gates. librarian Of
Andover Theological seminary, with {
working library of 200 volumes.
Street Railway from Fair Haven.
1t is said that street railway ser
vice between Fair Haven and New
York state may become an accom-
plished fact before 1910. The plan
are for 81. 900. 600 corporation, backe,
: by Vermont and New York fnanciers
the work to begin about June if pos
: sible, and the line to be completed i
about five months. Franchises al
ready have been granted by the town
of Poultney and Fair Haven. and it
believed others are assured at Wells
Pawlet, and Middletown, and at Gran
Vile, N. Y. The work of surveying
!; for the line will be started, it is under
stood, in about two weeks, and if tn
!, company obtains the right of way a
certain points the success of the under
, taking appears to be certain. A ten
porary organization has been effected
, the president of the company bein
< President Heinz of the Coney islam
y Street Railway Co. Other men inter
: ested In his project are William Ma
t thaniel of Poultney, A. Mulholland Q
t New York and A. Y. Gray of Middle
: town.
n Regarding Forest Fires.
The annual season of forest fires
:, now at hand when extra sprecaution
v necessary on the part of everyone
Damage done by these fires cannot b
!. measured in thousands of feet of lun
Der destroyed, for the innumerabl
+ young trees and seedlings burned rer
: resent future forests of inestimabl
value, and the impoverishment of tn
soil affects the growth of trees, not W
started. The Public Utilities Con