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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
Estate of Cyrus D. Metcalf

SLATE Ut V EIGMONI
District of Orleans SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict Aforesaid:
To the heirs and all persons interested in
the estate OF Cyrus ID. Metcaif late of
Irasburg in said District, deceased,
GREETING:
WHEREAS application hath been made
to this court in writing, by the Administra
tor of said Estate, praying for license and
authority to sell all of real estate of
said deceased to wit an undivided half inter-
est in the farm occupied by said deceased,
in his lifetime, as his home place, consisting
of buildings and about one hundred sixty
seven acres of land, the other half of said
farm being owned by the estate OF Angela
r. Metcalf, deceased representing to said
Court that it would be beneficial to the heirs
and all persons interested in the estate of
said deceased to sell said real estate and
convert the same into money.
And bringing into Court the consent and
APPRECIATION in writing, of all the heirs to
said estate residing in this state. and setting
forth the situation of the real estate.
WHEREUPON, the said Court appointed
and assigned the 18th day of March, 1914, at
10 a. IN. at the Probate office in Newport in
said District to hear and decide upon said
application snd petition and ordered
all persons interested therein, by pub
fishing said order, together with the
time and place of hearing three weeks sue
cessively in the Orleans County Monitor, a
newspaper which circulates in the neighbOr-
hood of those persons interested in said eS-
tate, all of which publications shall be pre-
vious to the day assigned for hearing.
THEREFORE,, you are hereby notified to
appear before said Court, at the time and
place assigned, then and there in said Court
to make your objections to the granting of
such license, if you see cause.
Given under my hand at Newport in said
District. this 9th day of February, 1914.
r. w. SPEAR, Judge.
S-ID
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
WEST BURKE

Warren Gaskell is visiting in Boston.
Mrs, Nettie Mccoy spent Sunday
with relatives in Barton.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Donaldson, on Monday Of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Humphrey
were called to Stsnnard last week on
business.
Miss Lillian Cheney of Roxbury,
Mass, has been visiting Miss Eva
Rosebrooks.
Miss Dorothy Rice of st. Johnsbury
spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs C.
IL. Coburn.
Mr., and Mrs. VIII Holtham are
rejoicing over the arrival of a son,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alba Craig returned
last week from a visit of several
weeks in Hatley, 2. @.
Mr.. and Mrs M. z. Falrbrother are
in Boston, attending the auto show ard
visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. John Mcclellan of Barton YVES
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
q. Il. Dean, the first of last week.
Miss Grace Bryant of Derby Line,
has been visiting her cousin, Mrs.
4. IL. Burke. during the past week.
The Eastern Star members and
some Of their friends are rehearsing a
play to be given the last of the month.
The meeting held Friday evening in
the interest of Free Public Library
for our village was very interesting,
and we hope it may be productive Of
much good.
The picture play, "The Little
Minister" given by Albert Armstrong.
Thursday evening was very good and
was greatly enjoyed by everyone who
heard and saw it.
Mrs. r. H. Burke, Manley Davis,
Mr. Myrtle Hall and daughter Mar
Jorle, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Frasier, and
several others have been on the sick
list. during the past week.
Harvey Drew and family. who have
occupied the Doyle farm during the
past year, have decided to leave the
first of April, and Eugene Gentley has
been hired to carry on the farm during
the coming season.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
A WORD TO THE WOMEN.


There is a type of we'll meaning
folks-and most of them are women
who ought to be suppressed in some
effective way without serious phys
1cal injury. The type in question was
described by friend in a conversa-
ton few days ago. He said his wife
had not been we'll for some time past
and that when the neighbors came in
the majority of them would dwell
with long faces upon the ill or ills
from which she was suffering and
some Of them suggest ailments that
had no connection with her trouble at
all. So nervous did this Door woman
become as result of these sympa-
thetic and neighborly visits that she
nearly went into a state of nervous
collapse. In the name of decency and
humanity, you ladies who belong to
this tribe, when you call on a neigh
Dor who is depressed and in poor
health, talk about the sunshine, the
fresh air, flowers, birds and other
things that make life sweet and worth
While and even discuss the latest
styles in dress and headgear, but don't
dwell upon the causes, results or posi-
bilities of her i'll health or give a har-
rowing recital of your own pains or
disorders. What she needs most is
cheering up and to forget for little
while her own distress. This form of
service hasn't quite the standing of
converting the heather and sending
fh0n0 nd nj flN lint &c,
one of which there is dire need.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

DR.. Samuel H. Sparhawk, II years
of age. one of the oldest and best
known Homeopathic physicians in
Vermont. died suddenly March 3 at ST.
Johnsbury of apoplexy. He was a
native of Pittsfeld, and received his
medical training in the Homeopathic
Medical school in Philadelphia and the
Homeopathic college in Cleveland, o.
He practiced medicine in Gaysville,
Pittsfeld, Morrisville and Rochester,
going to ST. Johnsbury in 1880.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
A NEW EGG RECORD.

"Whats in a name?" may we'll be
asked of the hen at the Oregon agri-
cultural college that has lately broken
the worlds record for a years egg
production. She is numbered like a
convict in a penitentiary, and her des-
ignation is G 543, and during the past
year she laid 201 eggs. This exceeds
by nine eggs the former record held by
a Canadian hen and by ten eggs the
record Of the former American cham
pion owned by the Missouri expert
ment station. c 543 is cross be-
tween a Plymouth Rock and a White
Leghorn and began her remarkable
years performance as a pullet at five
and a half months old. being Matched
on April %, 1912 and laying her first
egg Oct. IS An interesting feature
in connection with her performance is
that for half of the period she was one
of a flock of fifty hens and for the re-
mainder of the time in a flock of forty
hens. These hens were kept in a col
ony house 7 by II feet and open at
one end. They were given a moist
mash in the morning, moistened two
or three times a week with buttermilk
and other mornings with water. Whole
oats and wheat constituted the grain
ration, while green food was given in
the shape Of kale or clover. Beef
scraps kept before the hens constantly
completed the ration. A running pen
SO by 100 feet was provided; also a
scratching shed made out Of rough
lumber
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11

Those whose work causes CRIME to
work into the hands and who have
difficulty in getting them clean when
the days work is done will be glad to
learn of the following preparation,
which is recommended by CORE
spOndent of the Electrical Review.
This does not remove the dirt, but is
applied to the hands in the morning
before going to work. The preventive
consists of four ounces of grain alco-
hol, three ounces of glycerin and three
ounces of water. The mixture should
be rubbed in thoroughly, dries quickly
and results in a removal Of all dirt
when the hands are washed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
Commissioners Notice
Estate of Mahala ]. Randall

The Undersigned, having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Orleans, COMMISS IONERS. to re-
ceiVe, examine and adjust the claims and
demands OF all persons against the
estate of Nahala J. Randall late of Bar
ton. in said District deceased, and all claims
exhibited in offset thereto, hereby give
notice that we viii meet for the purpose
aforesaid, at the office OF F. $.
said District, on the 18th day of
March and the 18th day of August next
from l O'Clock, 2. m, to o'clock, p.
M, on each OF said days and that months
from the 18th day of February, A. d. 1914,
is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to us for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Barton this 9th day Of February
A. d. 1914
F. w. CUTTING
f. S. WHITCHER
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11

JEFFERSON ON AGRICULTURE.
In letter written in the year 1903
by President Jefferson and lately pub
ished in a biography is the following
paragraph in reference to the i'm
portance of agriculture. It's sentiments
are most timely now, no years later,
and should be carefully considered by
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
v hat Cow Testing Did for These
Farmers.

The Meadowbro0k Cow Testing AS
Mia jnn. which operates in the town
i q ov-r aud Barton principally
:l"sa ite Il It ye8r this month and is
Don't TO enter upon another year Of
Ten ness. For the benefit Of those
PI0 may re interests d something Of
What has been accnmptished may well
De mentioned at this time
This orga niz2tion is an organization
f the farmers the mselves. run by
hemse yes for the bettermenh of
their dairy interests. The cost is only
81 per cow per year providing farm
er has u or more cows. The tester
spends one day each month with each
farmer weighs both nights and morn
ing's milking7, takes samples for the
BabcOck tester and determines the
amount of butter fat each cow pro-
duces. He also weighs and figures the
cost Of each cows ratiOns and assist s
in determining what is a balanced ra-
ton. He also tests the cream from
the separator and the skinned milk
This work enables the farmer to tell
whether he is getting the proper test
from the creamery or not and what is
sometimes more important, whether
his separator is Swimming clean or
not.
q In one case, in this association it
saved the member more the first
month than it cost him the entir e
year, as there was mistake of p. G..
in his cream test. In another instance
the separator was leaving cream to
the amount of 81 so per day in dairy
OF 25 COWS. Another nearly new sep
arator Of standard make was leaving
Is per cent of cream in the separator
milk for the hogs. How long did it
take to save his dues to the associa-
ton?
Anyone interested should talk with
some of the members or officers of
this association, as we will be able to
take on few more for tie coming
year, which begins April list.
The directors are: N. @. Stevens,
Glover, G. B. Robinson, Barton, E. l..
Alexander, B. R. Sherburn, and M.
W. johnson of Glover. The secretary
and treasurer is @. M. Borland, Glover
and the tester Homer @. Shattuck.
Here are some records of COWS in
the association.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
SHEFFIELD

1fIna M1tcnell visited her parents
| last week.
Samuel Mitchell visited his parents
over Sunday.
Willis Blake visited at John Blake's
over Sunday.
Carl DWyer was home from Lyndon
vile over Sunday.
Mary Blake is stopping at John
Blake's for time.
Mrs. Labay and son visited at Char
! lie DOpp's last week.
George Stern has been confined to
the house for several days.
Warner Gray has been suffering with
blood poison in one of his feet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Richardson
visited at A. 0. Gray's Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Simpson visited
in Irasburg the last of the week.
Frank Wilkie is gathering cream for
the Glover creamery for time.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clinton Jones died the first of the
week.
H. p. Simpson of Montpelier was
called here the first of the week on
account Of the fire.
The Passumpsic Telephone company
installed a new single position switch
board here last week.
! Andrew Roberts has broken the
records in collecting taxes, having
collected all that are legal.
Elvira Gray has been confined to the
bed for the past several days but is
some better. Mrs. Randall has been
helping care for her.
Sixty friends gave A. J. Gifin a
surprise party Saturday evening. it
being his sixtieth birthday. Mr.. Will
cox presented him with a nice rocker
in behalf of the company, which was
very much appreciated. Refreshments
were served. games played and all
enjoyed most pleasant evening.
L. Macy is home from Green's
boro.
Harry Carr of St. Johnsbury was in
town Sunday.
The G. E. meeting is at the home of
James Miles Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. LaPoint of Wheelock
visited at Ransom Davis's Sunday.
Herman Davis has hired out to work
for F. o. Berry during the spring and
summer.
| 1t is reported that Mr.. and Mrs.
Eber Watson will move to Silas Ball's
this spring.
Peter Gilman. who has had rheu-
matte fever, was able to come to the
village last week.
Those on the sick list are Mrs.
Harriet Clark. Mrs. Betsey Whipple
and F. r. Whipple.
Rev. Mr.. Harrison took his little
child home from Brightlook hospital
Friday. The child is doing well.
Edwin Curtis. who had an operation
at the hospital at Burlington, is as
! comfortable as could be expected.
The stereoptican pictures of the life
of Christ shown on the screen by Rev.
!! Mr.. Harrison Sunday evening. at the
! church, were very good
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
FARM NEWS AND NOTES
This Department Will Run Every Other Week

Poultry keepers who are primarily
Interested in egg production will be
interested in the following rations
which Thomas Barron, the noted Eng
fish poultryman, feeds his laying hens.
A wet mash is made by mixing one
part bran, one part biscuit meal, one
part thirds" or pollard" half part
clover meal, one-eighth part ground
oats, One-eighth part meat and wetting
with water enough to make it nice and
crumbly. This is fed at night. For
dry grains, variety is fed-the more
the Determined together and fed in
the litter. Sweet skimmilk is also an
important part of the ration.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11

District of Orleans SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the estate of
Mary A. Shedd, a minor.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
RuIIdozina the Bull.

A few years ago 1 took the short
course at our college of agriculture,
and, besides learning Glow to judge
calves and so forth, learned the uni
versity yell. During the following
summer our neighbor's bull bothered
us at times by breaking through the
fence and coming up from the pasture
with our COWS. Finding the breachy
bull in the lane one night, my brother
who also knows something about col
lege yells, and i each took a pitchfork
and started after him.
The bull took to his heels and ran
until he came to good sized elm tree.
Here he wheeled and started paving
up the earth and believing and other
wise showing an inclination TO fight.
To keep up our ownrcourage we start
ed giving the college yell. The bull
gave one startled look and then made
for home the Straightest and swiftest
way. II took him through two barbed
wire fences. but they did not hinder
him any. He did not trouble us again.
The moral of this is: When you go to
college learn all you can, for you never
can tell what you may have use for.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

the peers OF their city brethren. They
have become leaders in affairs. in pro-
duction. in distribution. in politics.
chiefly because they have learned to
think for themselves and TO act inde-
pendently OF the industrial classes.
In the Unitel States there is great
danger OF going to the extreme in the
Immediately practical and technical.
The work OF special schools is in dan
ger of focusing too much on making
two blades OF grass grow where one
grew before. on teaching girls to cook
and keep house according to sanitary
regulations and the like.
These things are all necessary and
must be taught in the schools. but
they are utterly insufficient to make
us a really great agricultural nation.
II was not the local agricultural
schools and household economies
schools that primarily made Denmark
a great scientific agricultural nation.
but the folk high schools. We need
such schools in the United States;
schools that would teach a greater
love for the soil: that would help us
to measure the good in life by spirit
ual standards and not by man-made
rules; schools that would help us to
rise above the limitations OF locality
and state. and teach an understanding
of the national and even universal IN
the United States"
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
OUR COAL EXPORTS.

The United States, which produces
40 per cent of the worlds coal, exports
annually 27.5OO,OO tons. or about five
per cent OF the output of last year. the
total export in the fiscal year being
valued at SS6,O0O.O 900. or less than half
the value of the coal exports of the
United Kingdom and slightly less than
those OF Germany.
The foregoing statement summar-
ICES the ptatistics OF coal exports cor
piled by the bureau of foreign and do
mestic commerce, department of COM
merce. where many Inquiries regard
ing the volume and distribution OF our
coal exports are being received.
Exports OF domestic coal have dou-
bled during the last decade. having
increased from s.4s2.s67 long tons to
1904 to 10. .664 .OSO tons in 1914. the
latter total being with one exception
G913) the largest on record. In taddi-
tion to the exports consigned to for
eign countries, domestic coal laden on
vessels engaged in foreign trade for
use as fuel amounted in 1914 to T.
s11.913 tons and shipments TO Hawaii
and Porto Rico aggregated 133, sol
tons. making the toatal shipment out
OF mainland ports 27.6O9.494 with an
aggregate valuation of $50. .925.OO1
Bituminous coal is exported to about
1910 different countries. but chiefly
to Canada, Cuba. Panama. Mexico and
the West Indies In very recent
months Italy has become a large mar
ket for this commodity.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
A NATIONAL ARMY MOVING
MOUNTAINS

4 half million men and women com-
prise an army operating under the
direction OF commissioned and non
commissioned officers scattered all
over the United States and its
possessions. and reaching from the
largest cities TO the smallest ham,
lets and settlements and traversing
all the railroads. are working with
might never before known these days,
prompted by loyalty to the govern
ment of which they are part, and TO
the service which is employing them.
This vast army is the strength of
the biggest and most perfect business
organization on earth-the United
States postal system. The rush of the
holiday season is upon the men COM
posing lit. and they are all putting
forth their best efforts under the
strain. The parcel post feature, which
has proven such a potent factor In
bringing the express rates down, and
thus reducing the cost of human exist
ence. is having its most trying test.
The people in Uncle Sans employ re-
alize this, and they are making good.
They are Jealous for the triumph oil
the service in which they are en-
plOyed and glad TO be instrumental In
passing the messages of good cheer
from loved ones to loved ones that are
traversing all the avenues of the
world.
They therefore cheerfully accept the
added hardship. and in postoftices and
on mail trains and with carriers sacks
are moving mountains daily. They
have their heart in the work, and it is
because of the disposition thus shown
in every branch of the service. no less
than because Of the manner in which
it is conducted. that the postoffice sys-
tenn of the United States has attained
its unapproachable state of efficiency
the admiration of this country and
the wonder of the world.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

The National Geographic society
gives the following description of
Czestochowa, which has figured dur
ing the past few days in the campaign
in Poland.
"Czestochowa. called by the Ger
mans Czentochau. city in Russian
Poland. is one of the foremost meccas
of the pilgrimage-going Slavonians
More than western Christians of what
ever creed go to Jerusalem. more than
Roman Catholics go to Rome or Prot
estants to Eisenacn and Geneva do the
Slavonians in particular. the Russians
take up the pilgrims stan and wander
to their holy places. These people Of
the north are akin to the people of
India in that force of their religion
which drives them from their homes
on religious pilgrimage.
Famed throughout Russia, Poland.
and among the southern Slavonians,
Is the little city of Czestochowa.
wherein is the shrine of the wonder
working Black Madonna. Many a son
and daughter of the dreary, govern
ment ridden steppes and of bond-held
Poland feels that he or she left a torn
and harried spirit or some physical
infrmity before the magic of this
painting.
"Czestochowa is gray IN age and
gray in stirring history. 1t is city
on the southern Polish plateau, some
500 feet above sea level, of 72.600 in
habitants, capital of a-county of the
same name in the Russian-Polish gov
ernment OF Piotrkow, and It is situated
about IL miles from the German from
tier at Lower Silesia. Czestochowa
lies on the left bank of the Warta,
northwest of Cracow. and is an i'm
portant station on the WarsawCra-
COW railway. 1t is 143 miles south
west of Warsaw.
Commercially, the city is of no i'm
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
Prices of Long Ago.

The Magazine Almanac for 1917 con-
tains the following market prices OF
the Pittsburgh market: Bacon, 15c per
pound; beef, SC to 1Oc per pound; but
ter, firm, 1890 to soc per pound !;
geese, 75c to 81 each; turkeys, 75c to
50 each; flour. 81 per Lundredweight,
81 to IS per barrel: Indian meal. 81 to
S1.50 per bushel; corn, 75c per bushel;
oats. soc to 81; whisky, 75c to S71s C
per gallon; cider. 81 per barrel. The
prices for vegetables and fruit are
higher than in Philadelphia or New
York.
THE number of wagons employed
in hauling goods from the eastward to
this place, besides many that discharge
their loads at Brownsville and other
places, is greater than will be believed
by many. though il is a fact neverthe-
less. Mr.. Alexander Thompson, within
a few miles of this place, living on the
turnpike. has politely favored us with
the number of wagons which have
passed and repassed his house in the
year of 1915. They amounted to IL 800,
all subject to pay toll"
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
THE COST OF DISEASE.

Estimates regarding the loss caused
by preventable diseases are always
interesting, although necessarily gen.
eral. The smaller the area affected.
the more accurate are the figures apt
TO be. Professor Irving Fishers esti-
mate, in his report on national vitality.
Of the economic loss for the entire
country at one and one-half billions
a year is familiar TO students OF pub
lie health conditions. An estimate re-
Gently issued by the Minnesota state
board OF health shows the economic
loss from death from typhoid fever in
Minnesota in the last six years to be
$21,S5s. $40. while the deaths from tu-
berculosis are six times as great and
the loss three times as great as that
from typhoid. or S66.5s3.320. making
a total loss from the two diseases
alone Of sss.542.2sO for six years. or
an annual loss OF sI4. .757.O43. In max
ing this estimate the following eco
noInic values were used in computing
the financial loss from deaths: pro-
fessional. business men and farmers.
$500: skilled laborers. $500: unskilled
labOrers and dOmestics, 5000; married
women. 5000; children under Is years
OF age, 800. These valuations are
conservative. in the opinion OF The
Journal OF the American Medical As
sociatiOn. and should represent the
minimum rather than the maximum
loss