Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-11-25
STATE NEWS.
Stamp Tax.

| Stamp Tax.
Notice has been given the railroad,
| the express and the telegraph compa-
MES that on and after December
LIST stamps must be affixed and
bought by senders for every telegram,
i express package or freight shipment,
one cent EACH This is an internal
revenue tax and must be paid by the
senders. not the companies
Federal Reserve System at Home.
Frank C. Williams of Newport. state
bank commissioner, has completed his
biennial report to the legislature and
it will be out of press soon. He will
make certain recommendations advis.
! ing changes in some banking laws,
but nothing drastic or sweeping in
import. Mr.. Williams, asked as to
the effect the new Federal reserve
system would have upon the banks in
| Vermont, said that it would undoubt-
eddy be favorable to increasing con-
| fidence and extending Of business
The heavy reserves that the national
banks were required to maintain will
now be released to great extent and
the money placed in loans or in other
channels Of legitimate business. The
outlook is distinctly optimistic, said
Mr. Williams The condition of YER
mont banks is excellent. He went on
to say that the character of loans
issued by Vermont banks was much
better than some other New England
states and that business should pick
up encouragingly from now on.
Vermont to Sue New Hampshire as to
Boundary.
Governor Fletcher has requested
Alexander Dunnett to bring suit
against the state of New Hampshire
by the state of Vermont to establish
the boundary line of the Connecticut
river between the two states. Mr..
Dunnett will at once notify the attor-
ney. general of New Hampshire of his
proposed action and then go to Wash
ington to enter a motion before the
United States supreme court for suit
in equity. The supreme court will
hear the motion for trial and later
arrange for hearing it. This suit is
the result of the failure of the COM
missions from the two states to agree
upon establishing the boundary line,
and it will be remembered that Mr..
Dunnett was the chairman of the COM
mission from this state, the others
being Congressman-elect Dale and F.
H. Babbitt of Bellows Falls. The law
which provided for the creation of the
boundary commission further provided
that in case of disagreement litiga.
ton might then be commenced upon
the direction of the governor. At the
present time the boundary line works
injustice upon some property on the
Vermont side as it is now taxed in
both states.
Vermont Shops Get Order; War -Swells
Business.
Orders for 48 lathes for the English
machine shops have been received by
the Jones & Lamson machine company
. of Springfield. This the first large
foreign order received since the war,
though the company is beginning to get
J back it's foreign trade, having recently
! shipped few machines into Russia.
; When the war was declared they were
completing an order for SO machines
for big automobile factory in Mez-
, zieres. France. This order was can
celled and MeZzieres was one of the
cities destroyed by the Germans in their
advance toward Paris. The company
l have also announced that until further
: notice the shops will run on full time.
, For the past three months their shops
have heen running on half time, and
. sometimes less, and the prospect of a
winter on short-time schedule was not
!, at all attractive. The war has greatly
increased the business of the John T.
Slack corporation, also of Springfield,
J the largest shoddy mill in the world.
and they have been working a large
force day and night for the past two
months. They have just completed a
large contract of their product to be
, used in blankets for some of the Euro
: pean armies which kept all hands busy
for six weeks.
The Robin Hood Ammunition COM
{ pany of Swanton has just been awarded
( a contract of two and half million
7 dollars for rifle cartridges for one of
! the nations engaged in the great war
now raging in Europe and Asia. The
country in whose behalf the order was
placed as we'll as the destination of the
: cartridges, is of course kept pro-
. found secret. It is said. however, that
the product will be sent to New York
as fast as manufactured, shipped to
e South America and then forwarded to
its ultimate destination. In order to
r handle this enormous contract, the
s largest in amount that ever came into
o the state the Robin Hood company
has rush orders in for about quartz,
of million dollars worth of new
:, machinery. A large working force
. additional to that now already EN-
! ployed, will be engaged, and the plan
}. will be speeded up to it's highest posi-
Z BILE state of efficiency, and run continu
: ously day and night. with three shift.
= of help, for at least a year to come, ii
y order to get the product out within the
s specified time limit. Similar contracts
i have been closed also with the Western
Cartridge company of Chicago and tn,
Winchester people The people of tina
section are naturally jubilant over the
n assurance of plenty of profitable worl
= for Swanton's biggest industry, fo
r some time to come. Ex-Gov. Edward
e c. Smith of ST. Adams is president
+ and the directing head of the RobinHoot
= company.
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