Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-02-21
STATE NEWS
Estee Named for Mayo.


James b. Estee was nominated for
mayor at the general caucus in Mont
pelier Friday night by 1872 votes over
Fred B. Thomas.
Carnegie Library for Morrisville.
The offer of $1,000 for a Carnegie
public library at Morrisville has been
accepted and a committee is to be ap-
pointed to locate the building and re-
ceive the money in amounts of ST, 900
or $4,000 as needed. The committee
will be appointed by the selectmen.
Lawrence Children in Barre
There arrived in Barre on Saturday
afternoon thirty five children of the
strikers of Lawrence, Mass. Hun
dreds of the children of the Lawrence
strikers are being taken to different
places for care until the strike is set
tied. and the Barre sympathIZers took
I their share.
State Convention June &c.
The state committee agreed upon
the date of the republican state con-
vention to nominate state officers.
This meeting will be held in Burling-
ton Wednesday, June 26.
The republican state convention to
elect four delegates at large to the
national convention at Chicago. will
take place at Montpelier, Wednesday.
April 10.
Senator w. P. Dillingham; has been
invited to be chairman of the conven.
ton and Frank C. Partridge of Proc
tor, to be chairman of the committee
on resolutions.
Rutland's Drug Consumption.
About 400, 900 morphine tablets in
eighth, quarter and half grains are
consumed in this city every year, &C.
cording to a statement made by Ed
ward G. McClallen, local druggist
who is a member of the State board
of Pharmacy, in addressing the Rut-
land Medical and Reporting club.
Hardly one-tenth of this enormous
quantity of the drug is used in filling
! doctors prescriptions for medicine. In
addition to the amount consumed in
tablet form about 100 ounces in pow
| der form are bought each IL months.
The quarter grain size costs about a
cent and a half each, other sizes being
charged for proportionately. By the
ounce, morphine is worth over 81. In
addition to the morphine, $4,000 tab
lets of heroin, another product of OPT
I'm is annually sold in Rutland.
Governor Makes F. L. Fish Judge.
Governor Mead appointed Frank L.
Fish of Vergennes to succeed the late
Judge A. A. Hall of st. Adams on
the bench of the supreme court
Frank Leslie Fish was born in 1863 in
Newfane, where his early education
was secured. He also attended He
land & Gray Seminary at Townshend
and Vermont Academy at Saxton's
River. from which he was graduated
in 1886. He taught school for year
and studied law in the Office of A. E.
Cudworth of South Londonderry, at
the same time teaching in the town
schools. In the following June he be.
came law student in the office of
James M. Tyler of Brattleboro. now
court After subsequent reading al
Bellows Falls in the spring of 1885
and became associated with L. M.
Read of Bellows Falls, judge of pro
bate for the district of Westminster
Since 1890 Mr.. Fish has resided ir
Vergennes. He was States attorney
of Addison county in 1891-1896, anC
national bank examiner for several
years from 1900. For period of si1
consecutive years Mr.. Fish acted as
city collector of taxes by appointment
of board of aldermen and was collector
for the school during the same time
Upon the resignation of William H
Bliss of Middlebury. Mr.. Fish was
appointed States attorney for Add
son county, December l, 1891, and wa!
successfully nominated by the repub
lican convention in 1892, 1894, 1895
and 1893, being elected each time.