Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-09-27

convicts' dining hall where he wrest-
e from convict cutting bread
long knife with which he slashed the
convict's arm. nearly severing it
from the shoulder.
Under recent law making it a
capital ofense for life prisoner to
assault another person, Oppenheimer
was tried and sentenced to death.
Last Tuesday he escaped from his cell
into the corridor where he fatally
stabbed Yaqui Indian convict, also
under death sentence. When over
powered, the human hyena nnnchal-
emily observed: Il wanted to add an
other scalp to my belt" What
would come of altruistic coddling in
such a case?-Rutland Herald
Big Hotel at Mt. Mansfield.
1t is rumored that the Grand Trunk
J., Railway plans to erect a large sum-
mer hotel in the vicinity of Mount
Mansfield. This rumor is naturally
of the greatest interest to the Green
Mountain State and the Burlington
Free Press prints editorially part of
an article by William E. Curtis on the
policies of the Canadian railways that
will build hotels from sea to sea.
The Free Press says in this regard -
THE Grand Trunk also proposes to
erect several hotels in the mountains
when it's line is completed to the
Pacific Ocean, and plans for a build
ing at Prince Rupert, the Pacific ter
minal similar to the Selkirx. have
al 'eady been completed and the
work of construction will begin this
fall. 1t is the intention of the Grand
Trunk company to have a string of
hotels from one end of the line to the
other at all important stations, and
also at isolated stations where the
conditions will not justify the invest
ment of private capital. Pres; dent
Hays in his long experience, isl con-
Vi iced that the best advertisement for
a town is a good hotel and he has
h zee thousand miles of small towns
to build IN for the benefit of the com
pany of VIII CHI he is president.
1t is al 50 interesting to know that
he plans a dozen fine summer hotels on
the line of the Grand Trunk system
list travel and make the Green Noun
tains as popular as the White Noun
tains.
"Ey guaranteeing interest on the
cost of construction. the Grand Trunk
Railway company persuaded expert
enced and popular hotel men to build
large and comfortable summer houses
in the highlands of the Province of
Ontario which are already patronized
by Americans. The Royal Muskoka
lake, about 125 miles north of Toron-
to, was the first and the largest It's
success was followed by the construc-
ton of the Wawa hotel on the Lake
of Bays, which is one of the most ro-
mantle and picturesque spots in
America and it has been enlarged
every year since it has been opened"
Farmers, Stay in New England.
From one point of view the great
corn states are in New England.
Year in and year out the yield to the
acre is about forty per cent above
the average for the United States.
And the corn is worth more. The
farm value on July first last as re
ported to the Department of Agricul-
ture, averaged about seventy cents a
bushel in New England against fifty
cents in Illinois, Iowa. Nebraska and
Kansas.
1t wa a Connecticut youth. N. H.
Brewer, who won the highest prize
at the national corn show three years
ago by producing hundred and
thirty-three bushels to the acre; and
at the New England corn show last
fall this record was probably exceed
ed by P. P. Davis, of Massachusetts.
who produced hundred and three
more protein than four tons of good
clover hay. on an acre. This acre
of corn was worth a hundred and
thirteen dollars for the grain and fif-
teen dollars for the fodder. Where in
the "corn belt,' demands Yankee
enthusiast, is the acre planted to that
cereal that will yield one hundred
and twenty eight dollars? He adds
that the young prize winners have
performed invaluable service by dem
onstrating how waste land can be
made productive, farms doubled in
value, revised edition of the old
time New England farm life brought
about and fifty dollar land in the
East made to earn greater profit
at growing corn than hundred and
fifty dollar Western land ~
The Department of Agriculture
, shows, in recent report, that Yer
mont makes twenty dollars an acre
It on wheat. or four times as
much as the Mississippi Valley makes,
Wnlle NEW Hampshire clears over
eleven dollars an acre on oats against
two dollars and thirtysix cents an
acre in a group of Central Western
grain states.
Already agriculture in New Eng
land is looking up. The value of
farm lands in Maine increased seven.
, ty-four per cent in the last decade
> Agriculture is to be big feature OF
the New England exposition given by
: the Boston Chamber of Commerce
next month. An announcement O.
!, y the exposition says cit has been e
u fault of New England people thai
Il they have been keenly alive to thG
l. development of all sections of the
= country except their own" but "w
e are beginning to realize that there i
- here at home AS much opportunity a
y anywhere in the county. "-Saturda
:. Evening Post.