Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-01-24

mere are hoping for a speedy recovery
and an early return to his home.
DERBY.
The Monitor is DESTROYS of securing
a regular correspondent for Derby.
Mail US a few items for next week
and ask for particulars.
CLOVER.
Milo Wilson of Brighton, Mass. is
in town.
Mrs. Emily Goodwin is visiting her
niece in Newport.
DR.. Fred Dwinell of L%yndonville was
in town the first Of the week.
E. A. Cook from Lyndonville was
in town the first of the week.
WILDER Scott from Coventry has
been visiting friends in town.
Mrs. J. sW. Mathie sprained her
wrist recently so severely that she is
unable to use it.
5Mr. and Mrs E. L. Clark visited
their daughter, Mrs. Alice Carder, at
L%yndonville last week. x5Sa s@s
Mrs. Maggie (Wylie) Clark. who
has been seriously i'll for some time is
much better and able at leave the
hospital where she has been for treat
ment.
David Anderson, who is spending
the winter at Southern Pines and,
who has not been so we'll of late, is
improving again and is able to..resume
work.
Almon E. Leonard -,oflssSanta Fe,
New Mexico, is just recovering from a
siege of typhoid fever. His many
friends here will be pleased to learn
Of his recovery. -.
VERMONT'S FORWARD MOVE
MENT. :.
An interested audience listened t.
the speakers of the evening at the
recent meeting held by Mason S,
Stone in company with DR.. Bishop o.
low of the St. Johnsbury Caledonia
and Frank L. Greene of the St. Albans
Messenger. Mr.. Stone, after a few
remarks relatives to the pleasure i
gave him to speak to an Orlean!
County audience, said that he gave hi
first address on educational matter
in the North church at Glover some g
years ago, since which time he na.
been connected with the educationa
interests Of the state excepting tn
time spent in the Philippines. HI
urged the awakening Of the people t,
the fact that we must make our sys
TEN of education more practical
more Of the hands, if we are tt
keep in line with our sister states an
;, do the educational work that will hes
) fit our boys and girls to become goo,
and useful citizens. We must 25teacI
them the opportunities of our ow
I state and how to grasp them, there i
a no state TIA: can afford them better
Vocational training should take tn
5 place in part Of the so-cailed &C
- vanced education. The United State
T is the worst country in the world t
S cram the heads without training tn
hands to correspond. The students c
our schools are top-heavy. DR.. Bisk
op said that, although not a Vermont
er born, he had been a resident of tn
state for 30 years and closely cor
: nected with the young people in tn
schools for 20. He felt that MOI
effort should be made to educate on
young people along agricultural lines
Nowhere were there better opportun
ties than at home, yet the studer
was looking beyond our state for
place in life. On a visit to the agr
cultural college at North Dakota
found 400 students, Vermont had 81
He wanted to see at least 500 at Blu,
lington and several thousand HON
students. Vermont has a splendi
" place in the esteem of other state,
If we wish to hold it we must do it b
a system of thorough education of tt
right kind. MI. Bigelow, at one tin
e mayor of Burlington, spoke Of tt
great increase of crime. With an il
crease of population of four per Gel
crime had increased 400 per cent ar
the graver crimes were largely con
p mitted in the small towns by the n
tive born. The cause was that fl
generations our brightest and be.
have been leaving their towns to
to other states. Many of those lie
behind were mentally and morally al
:, physically deficient. Small plac,
were not guarded against crime
were larger ones. Remedy, keep OF
n best at home. Educate them to fiji
opportunity at home and build up OF
own state instead of some other.