Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-13
STATE NEWS.
Raise $4,000 for Industry.

$4,000 to assure the rebuilding of the
Fisher tannery. The plant will prob
ably not be built on SO large a scale as
before. The old plant was destroyed
by fire in April, 1910.
Declines New Appointment.
Rev. Ralph F. Lowe, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at ST. AL
bans, who was recently appointed by
Bishop Mcintyre, as superintendent of
the st. Adams district, to succeed
the late Rev. George w. Hunt has
declined the appointment much to the
qualification of his parishioners.
Big Contract for Woodbury. Company.
The Woodbury. Granite company of
Hardwick, has just received a con-
tract to furnish the finished stone for
the new Idaho state capitol: The con-
tract will amount to about $50, 900, out
of Woodbury. gray granite. This
makes the fifth state capitol for which
the company has furnished a part or a
whole of the stone.
Essex County Ticket.
Essex county republican convention
at Guildhall nominated Porter H. Dale
of Brighton, senator; c. H. McGinnis
of Concord, Kyle T. Brown of Lunen-
burg, assistant judges; H.. w. Blake
of Brighton, judge of probate; Harry
B. Amey of Brighton, states attor-
ney; Richard Beattie of Maidstone,
sheriff G. R. Ramsey of Lexington,
high bailiff.
Soldiers Monument at Morrisville.
The monument committee met the
first of the week and made definite ar
rangements for the soldiers monu-
ment to be erected in Academy Park
at Morrisville, and the order will be
placed directly. 1t is hoped that the
monument will be ready for dedica-
ton about the middle of September.
1t will be made of Barre granite and
will be ten feet square at the base,
twenty-four feet high and surmounted
by a large bronze figure of a soldier
holding a flag, about twelve feet high.
There will be four bronze tablets con
tanning in relief the names of ITO Nor
ristown volunteers and members of
James M. Warner Post.
Post-Office Robbed.
The p~ost-office at Castleton was
broken into early one morning last
week. The explosion was heard by
people living near by but the postmas-
ter, R. L. Ransom, did not know of
the occurrence until $50 o'clock.
About two hundred dollars in cash and
some stamps were taken. The burg
lars left no clue and no suspicious
characters have been seer around the
place, but the same methods were
used as in recent breaks. The black
smith shop of George Coats was brok-
en- into and a sledge hammer and
cnisel, which were taken therefrom,
were used in making the break at the
Office. A pane of glass was broken
and in this way the catch could be
reached and the entrance effected.
Vermont Mountain Peaks.
Several interested newspaper men
at the recent press outing inquired
with some curiosity regarding the
comparative heights of Killington and
Cancels Hump. The Woodstock Age
gives once more the comparative
heights of several Vermont mountains.
Mansfield, 1884 feet; Killington, 4241
feet; Cancels Hump, 4088 feet; Lin
coin, 4078 feet; Jay Peak, 4O18 feet
Pico, 1867 feet; Little Killington,
1851 feet; Mendon Peak, 1887 feet
Equinox, 1916 feet; Haystack, Will
mington, 1854 feet; Green Peak, Dor
set, 3436 feet; A%scutney, 1920 feet
Bear Mountain, Sandgate, 1920 feet
Blue Ridge, Mendon, 1898 feet. The
cold comparison of figures, therefore,
easily places Rutland and vicinity in
the lead as far as lofty and imposing
peaks are concerned.
New Industry for Springfield.
A new industry, which will proba-
bly, be started in Springfield soon, is
the manufacture of a useful and unique
penny-in-the-slot machine. 1t is
equipped with a small electric motor
and by putting a penny in the slot it
makes a connection which causes a
brush to revolve rapidly and by plac-
ing the foot against the brush and
turning it a little, the dust is instant
ly removed and a neat polish given.
The company which will manufac-
ture the machines is known as the In
terstate Shoe Cleaning Machine COM
pany and is Incorporated under the laws
of Massachusetts. Several of the
officers are Vermont men, the presi-
dent being G. H. Lockwood of Spring
field, the general manager and treas
urer, Will D.. Lockwood of the same
place, and the director, G. F. Lawton
of Bellows Falls. The financial and
clerical work will be looked after in
~Fitchburg, Mass, while the manu-
featuring will be done in Springfield.
$5O0,OOO for U. v. M.
At the 1O6th commencement of the
University of Vermont, degrees in
course were conferred on 95 gradu-
ates, including IS academic and 80
medic. At corporation dinner it was
announced that the effort to raise an
endowment of 81, 900, 900 has reached
the half million dollar mark. This
sum includes 500, 900, a conditional
pledge by the Rockefeller foundation,
and $50, 900 from Carnegie, also condi.
tional upon raising $500, 900.
Among the later and larger sub
. scriptions which made it possible to
8 comply with the conditions of the
general educational board, which
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