Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-08-09

will, there will be a fine athletic
performance laid out for the ambl-
tious members, to cross the valley from
peak to peak. Meanwhile Vermonters
may desire to get acquainted with
their own mountain peaks. If so. there
will be nice chance when the Green
Mountain club completes this TRAIL
Barre Times.
Summer Hotel Pays Forty Per Cent.
The Woodstock Inn earned forty per
cent last season, and yet some people
insist that a big summer hotel n
Vermont will not pay.-Burlington
Free Press.
And there are others who vocif-
erously insist that summer hotel in
Vermont will not pay unless it is
able to sell liquor. And yet the
Woodstock Inn, earning last year, as
the Free Press points out, forty per
cent, did so without the fictitious aid
of bar and this hotel is by no means
the only one that is being conducted
in Vermont in not only a self-respect-
ing but a highly profitable manner
without the sale of liquor. It not
only explodes the theory of the
necessity" of bar to successful
hotel operation, but constitutes en
effective answer to the arguments
advanced in behalf of innkeepers'
| license and similar measures.-Enos-
burg Standard.
The Stunt of Wild Apple Tree.
Again speaking of apple growing in
Vermont, and particularly of the
peerless White river valley, prompts
the Landmark to arise and tell the
story of little runt Of a wild apple
tree and the stunt it is doing this
! little wild sapling that had a diameter
found among a group of wild brush
and growth upon one of the valley
farms. The owner thereof decided
at once to graft it, as the location of
the tree was alike desirable and
convenient.
After clearing the ground from
about the tree of brush and vines the
top was cut off and two scions were
inserted and duly waxed. The variety
grated was the Mcintosh Red. Both
scions lived and made a prodigious
growth the first season. The second
season one of the CRAFTS was cut out,
leaving but the one to form the new
top of the tree, for all the original
top was likewise cut away. AS the
seasons came the scion continued to
grow and last spring, the fourth
after grating, saw the tree in a
beautifully formed new top, and in
May it blossomed quite freely. Today
the tree has % apples scattered
amongst its branches and every one
is as fair and beautiful as a rose.
) This in spite of the fact that no spray
was used. The owner hopes to see
the 20 apples mature, and in two
years anticipates that the yield of the
tree will be at least bushel of mum
Der one apples, and we believe he is
justified in such anticipat n.-White
River Junction Landmark.
Officers of Fake Mutuals Indicted.
AS a result of the raid made b,
Commissioner McCulloch of Penn
sylvania On fourteen Philadelphia fire
mutuals which are alleged to have
2 heen carrying on a fraudulent bust
i, ness. the grand jury has indicted three
of the principal operators, Davit
Balaltz, Joseph I. Malschick ant
Charles Weinberg who are now undel
bail for trial. It is stated that the
concerns, some of which masquerade
under such we'll known names as tnt
Royal and the Aetna, collected abou
, S27, 200 month in premiums and pait
, practically no losses. The raid was
largely due to President E. G.. irwin
of the Fire Association, who was LEI
: in consequence Of inquiries as to thu
standing of some of these concerns tt
! do little investigation. At the hear
ing given Tuesday, Herman S. Robin
son, 19 year old boy, who was presi
dent of two of the concerns an seer,
tary Of another at salary of SIS
week, testified that he was homeless
1 when he was picked up on the stree
, by one of the defendants. who fttet
, him out at clothing store. He sait
he knew he had been elected to al
official position, but thought it was
. matter of form. Other witnesse
| testified that names of subscribers t
the concerns were obtained from tn
city directory that agents receive
a commission of so per cent, and in
spectOrs 10 per cent on the bushes
written by those under them Whe
n Commissioner McCulloch has bee
e appointed receiver for the raide
: concerns, it is his intention to levy a
S assessment on the policy holders t
S meet the liabilities of the concern
e He believes the lesson will be a salu
h tary one.-Insuranc Standard.