Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-04-26
STATE NEWS.
H.,dx;ck Granite Strike Unsettled.

Hardwick Granite Strike Unsettled.
There is no change in the labor
trouble between the cutters and man
ufacturers at Hardwick. The men
have been idle for seven weeks.
Some of the manufacturers are doing
a little work by themselves. aided by |
apprentices.
Heard Service through Telephone,
To enable his mother, Mrs. Laura
F. Gleed, who is confined to the house
by illness, to hear the Easter services
at the Congregational church last sun
day. Hon. F. G. Fleetwood had tele-
phone connection placed between the
church and his home in Morrisville,
the telephone in the church being
placed on the pulpit, Mrs. Gleed
heard the entire service distinctly.
Venus Very Bright.
I Venus is exceedingly conspicuous
now as the evening star, low in the
western sky. The Scientific American
saws. "She is so bright that her light
passing across western window
makes an easily visible patch on
white wall, and she is easily visible in
| the daytime, if the eye has some
! guide to her position. Mercury,
about Is degrees below Venus, very
near Saturn, is readily visible,
bright, twinkling object almost equal
to Sirius.
Advertising Vermont.
The new publicity bureau, created
by the last legislature and entrusted
to Secretary of State Bailey, has be-
gun it's work. In this issue Of the
Monitor an advertisement appears, re-
uuesting all persons of the state who
make a business of entertaining sum-
mer boarders to write the secretary
for blanks, which they are to fill out,
! giving information regarding their
houses, rates, opacity. etc. AS soon
as this information is received a
booklet is to be prepared for general
circulation throughout the country,
the method of distribution being
through the passenger departments
of the railroads and through the re-
sort and information bureaus of the
Metropolitan newspapers. The in
formation desired should be furnished
the secretary at once. There is no
expense for this publicity to the
: boarding house keepers.
} Cleanup Day.
1t is we'll known that during the
winter there accumulates around oul
dwellings more or less unsanitary
materials. These should be removed
! to some place where they can be bur
led or burned without the smoke
troubling anyone. We therefore rec
, ommend that Monday, the tlrst day O.
= May, be known as Cleaning up day, ,
q that on that day every member of ths
y various households unite to clean III
j.. and remove all accumulation of tn
. past, not forgetting the back yard
- Let all good citizens so operate in ar
effort to have a clean town, to de
story the breeding places of the fly
the mosquito, the germs of tuberculos
e is and other death dealing diseases
It to the end that every home shall hav
9 sanitary surroundings, which shall b.
e maintained during the year. thus be
coming a standing invitation for tn
n city resident to spend the summer i
81 a sanitary community. In behalf o
the state board of health, Henry {
!. Holton, Sec.
IL May Call Special Session of Legislat, r.
= With view to avoiding the disas
5. err which they believe will come t
ID that part of the state if the Boston
r Maine railroad builds its South Vel
le on-Brattleboro link on the Ne
Of Hampshire side of the Connecticut ri,
III err, the people of Brattleboro throug
H. their local committee, have aske
ed Gov. John A. Mead of Rutland to col
in vene the legislature in extra sessic
s. for the purpose of considering a pls
l. r.:
On to enter Brattleboro from the soul
II. route which practically touches not
It's of the land now used by the Centr
~ Vermont road for terminal purpose
nd The cali for an extra session is the r
d.. suit of conference which was he
n between a representative of the loo
in railroad committee and Pres. Charl
nd S. Mellen of the New Haven syster
al At that time Mr.. MelIen agreed
he hold up temporarily his order to b
10 gin work on the New Hampshire sit
of of the river. In undertaking
He bring about a solution Of the loo
he railroad situation which will pro
ms most advantageous to that section
err the state the committee had ma
plans of such character as to affe
IN. in the least possible degree any ter
rk TORY OIL Tile S0HGTdl NGEulOuGs ne
ist plans in substance provide that t
Ter Boston & Maine proposed line. as
81 comes from the south. shall ere
ire the Central Vermont about m
on south of this village, the land
this point being about 700 feet. tt
1al plan takes nothing from the Centr
as Vermont except short spur tra'
nd serving several storehouses, and
lat offset this last, the Brattleboro Co
,p- mittee offers to provide west of
rse Central Vermont tracks an equ
an amount of space and to procure the
of cation thereon of all the industries a
a storehouses served by this trac
,le The committee further agrees to ha
the new land decided to the Cent?
lid Vermont and to build spur tra'
re- without expense to that road and
re- guarantee that the industries on t
af. new land shall pay at least as mu
,at rental to the Central Vermont as tn
On now nav. This substitution can