Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-10-15

'sThe Press Rev. John. Paige,
pastor of the Every Day church and
founder of the movement it represents,
declared that prohibition is enforced
In Maine at the present time more
strictly than ever before in spite of
the assertions to the contrary. He has
just returned from the Pine Tree state,
where he made many Inquiries upon
This point Mrs. F. w. Nash spoke
upon "Anti-Narcotics, and Mrs. E.
L. Wyman of Manchester Center upon
"Moral Education When pledges
for state work were called for, $76
was raised in five minutes 81 more
than last year.
Vermont Banks Are Prosperous.
State Bank Commissioner Williams
has made report for the year
ending June 80, 1913, the following be-
ing an abstract:
"The total deposits Of the banks at
the close of business, June 80, 1913, |
were S87, 1929, 1854 80, being an increase
for the year of S ,539, 294. 80, which is
much the largest in any year in the
history Of the state. This increase is
divided as follows: The q mutual |
savings banks have increased SO, 181, /
51306, and the 80 trust company
which have savings deposits have in
creased 81, 1857, 781. SO.
''The number Of depositors has
increased 1852; the number of Vermont
depositors has increased 1869 and the
number of nonresident depositors has
increased 1888. The amount of de-
posits by residents of Vermont has
increased Sc, 566, $50. 80; the amount of
deposits of non-residents has increased
1912, 1881. The number of deposit tors
having more than $4,000 each of depos-
it's has increased 1889, and the amount
of such deposits has increased SIS, 108,-
1879. The state banks Rave paid to
the state of Vermont in taxes during
over the previous year of SAL, 1897. II.
The banks have paid deposltors in
interest during the year S3,O18. 735. 80,
!. being an increase of 1921, 1885, 80 over
the previous year.
| State Bar Association Meets.
: The members of the Vermont State
Bar association met at Montpelier last
week to undertake to punish Col. John
H. Mimms of Burlington, secretary of
the association, for any correspondence
which he may have had with Governor
Fletcher in not inviting him to the
meeting. The nominating committee
was unanimous in it's selection of Mr..
his election by the association was
without dissenting vote. Col.
! Mimms after reading the statement
. that he offered his apologies to Cover
nor Fletcher, issued the following
4 statement:
2 ''The statement in the Free Press
and Montpelier Journal that apollo
2 gized to the governor for the letter
which 1 wrote to him as secretary is
4 an absolute and unqualified lie
$ made no such apology nor did | deem
4 that there was any occasion for any
apology"
The association elected it's officers
e az follows: President, John W.
: president. Charles D. Watson of St..
s Adams; second vice-president. E. w.
Gibson of Brattleboro; third vice pres
t ident, Raymond U. Smith of Wells
f River; secretary, John H. Mimms of
d Burlington; treasurer. E. M. Harvey of
e Montpelier; board of managers, L. G..
S Moody of Montpelier, Guy w. Bailey of
: Essex Junction, Edwin w. Lawrence
of Rutland, and M. M. Wilson of
Randolph.
Vail Elected Chairman.
Ever since the reorganization of the
,, Boston Chamber Of Commerce in 1909,
! it has been felt that it could and
f ought to help in the development of
q agriculture, which is one of New En-
" " glands largest industries. In 1909
q there were 1857, 900, 900 invested in
= farms, and the value of products that
: year was 1882, 100000.
> The Chamber has recently re-organ-
: lied it's committee on agriculture and
q secured as chairman Theodore N. Vail,
y who besides being president of the
). American Telephone & Telegraph COM
:. pany, has at Lyndonville large farm
and one of the most practical agricultu-
+ raj schools in the country. Associated
E with Mr. Vail on the committee are
o Nathaniel l. Bowditch. William H.
= Bowker, DR.. Kenyon L. Butterfield,
i Charles NJ Cox, George H. Ellis,
i Harold L. Frost, Richard Hittinger,
i John C. Runl1Ie, Walter E. Smith,
- Charles F. Whiting, and Wickliffe J.
f Spaulding. John C. circuit has beer
engaged as permanent secretary.
- The present conditions in agriculture
are of great concern to farmers
manufacturers and business men Of
New England. A good many farmers
# claim that on account of not beine
- able to get good help and because Of
n no adequate system of marketing
Ihere Is uCCle money TO De maze IL
o. farming at present. Manufacturing
y depends on labor and labor in some
= form constitutes the greatest elemen
n of cost in the production of manufac
y, ~ tured articles The cost of labor il
~, ~ regulated, generally speaking, largel,
~ by the cost of food. At present Is pei
" cent of New England's food suppl.
- comes from outside her borders New
n England can and ought to raise
N greater portion of her food supply
10 and it is of Importance to manufactur
as ing and business interests that sh
~ should.
e,
~ Vermont Notes
lr The Snowflake Canning company o
OF Brattleboro canned 760, 900 cans of corr
We this season. little short of what wa
to exnected from the ACREAGE cnntracte,