Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-04-30

of cattle came into the country in the
first eight months this year. against !
only IL, 500 in 1907-Statistics of the
Department of Commerce.
A Green Mountain Boy.
The new chief justice of the Supreme
court of Maine is a native of Vermont
and graduate of Dartmouth college,
but those facts do not initiate against
him. Judge Alfred R. Savage first
saw the light of day in Ryegate in
1848. and his degree was received from
the institution in Hanover in 1871.
Judge Savage has been on the bench
of the higher courts of Maine Is
years and is one of the best loved
men of the whole state-Brattlebor
Reformer.
Found Out the Poor Ones.
The Orleans County Monitor prints
list of ten cows owed by the Memphre-
magog Cow Testing Association that
have produced in excess of 40 pounds
of butter each in thirty days. The
lowest production in the list is 40.5
pounds of butter while the highest is
57.2 pounds. The average per cow is
45.5 pounds 1t is certainly worth
something to these farmers to know
they have COWS that are such good
butter producers but it is probably
worth more to them to find out they
have COWS that on the same feed and
care are not producing over half or
two-thirds of that amount of butter.
They will know at the end of a year
which cows it pays them to keep in
their dairy and get the most profit. 1t
does seem strange that more farmers
L. 4loo,r, I'd j
securing better returns on their feed
Senatorship Talk.
The Rutland News intimates that
the active interest the Rutland Herald
is taking in the first popular cleo.
often that the Herald manifests any
interest in Vermont's public affairs
nowadays presages the candidacy of
, the Herald's owner, the Hon. Percival
W. Clement. for the honor. Mr..
Clement, it is stated, will try to break
the mountain rule and succeed Senator
Dillingham;, whose term expires next
: year, thus giving the west side two
senators and the east side none. The
. News further hints that former Cover
nor Mead. likewise of Rutland, may
also try for the place. Undoubtedly,
nominations for senator next year will
be made by the several party conven.
tons, at the time the general state
tickets are nominated, probably late
5 in the summer, as election does not
:. take place until November. A plur
. atty then determines the choice, Sc
that, in badly divided field. we nigh
easily have a minority senator, pos
t sibly representing a minority party :
! Randolph Herald and News.
S Where Do They Stand?
There is one question that has beer
troubling the Messenger for som,
r time, and it has to do with what view
=. is held by Vermont Progressives il
O regard TO representation in the legisla
=, ture. The Progressive watchword is
LET the people rule" something
r which has been advocated in all tim,
n since Athens and the other Grecial
: cities went down under pure democ
racy, and which was Mr.. Bryan
/ call during one of his periodic at
/ tempts to break into the White House
Do these Progressives in the smal1e
towns really mean what it is just t.
l. imply they say? Are they willing t
g let the people rule and have proper
Il tional representation instead of rep
resentation by town? Let some goo
Progressive paper explain this thing
e let it tell the "peepul' how far tn
n Progressives are willing to translate
# fine catch phrase into fact. Most Pro
, gressives are in the farming com
10 munities where Mr.. Taft's reciprocit
5e plan led them to swat themselve
re when they thought they were hittin
70 the former president, and some ligh
~ on the subject will be interesting.-S
le Adams Messenger.
- Commissioner Prouty.
Interstate Commissioner Charles 4
Mt Prouty, who figures conspicuously
IL the pending investigation of the Ne
80 York. New Haven & Hartford raj
81 road, is .Vermonter, of somewh:
m radical tendencies. alert and vigoro,
p in action, and very ready in speed
ed He succeeded Wheelock c. Veazle, al
81 of Vermont, on the commission. TT
al latter, on account of ill health, we
IN to Mr.. Cleveland with a letter of re
We ignation. But the President told hi
nm to put it in his pocket
Some months passed by and M
no Redheld Proctor, quite as alert in fin
nd ing federal offices as any senator
record, came to Boston with the su
gestion that it was very importa
fly that this part Of the country should !
IF? represented on that board, and that
no had man for the place in the pers
',o of Charles A. Prouty, railroad la
Ole yer of exceptional efficiency.
ac- Through Mr.. Tuttle's acquaintan
he with Mr.. Olney, then in the Clevela
H. cabinet, and several other influenti
nc Democrats, Mr.. Prouty was favorat
Wn presented to the administration A
op Mr.. Proctor's own influence was n
ast small. AS a result Mr.. Clevela
- named Prouty. He has had a long a
PIC interesting career on the commissio
all President Roosevelt was at first mu
displeased with him, regarding sol
W. of his utterances as unnecessar
q, offensive to the railroad manage
WI The colonel liked to say all the radi,