Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-09
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Live Fast, Bury Them Quick.

Live Fast, Bury Them Quick.
To continue the fast pace of the
living, Brattleboro undertaken is to
put into service motor-driven funer-
al car.-Barre Times.
Hardwick on the Map.
Hardwck is right on the map SO far
as judges are concerned. 1t is quite
an honor to have two judges in one
town. However, when a town has the
men that fit the place, they should be
selected. W aterbury Record. Il
Consolidation of Ports.
Painful though the reflection may
be, the Herald is constrained to com
mend the action of the Wilson
administration in consolidating the
Burlington and Newport customs dis
trict as piece of constructive economy
| which ought to have been accomplished
by Republicans.- Herald.
ST. Joansbury Feels Better.
| Manchester, NJ H., with $4,000, 000
order for army shoes and Milwaukee,
Wis, with an order for over million
pairs of wooden socks and half as many
sweaters for England and France, know
how St. Johnsbury feels now the scale
factory is back on full time again.
Johnsbury Republican.
Stay on the Farm, Boys!
! 1t is plainly evident these days that
the boys are coming back to the farm
| if they can raise the fare back to the
old place. Better yet. they are not
| leaving it in hurry Better dinner
of the humble cod. paid for. than a
roast of stalled OK that yet belongeth
to the meatman The Advance.
Weeks Claims Speakership.
The speakership of the next house OF
representatives is nailed down. it we
take without reservation the dispatches
from Middlebury, which state Judge
John E. Weeks has been given pledges
sufficient to assure his election. We
doubt, however, whether Stanley
Wilson, of Chelsea, who is an active
candidate, will give the Addison count!
report an O. K--Brattleboro Reformer
The Youngest Judge.
The Brattleboro Reformer remark
that Judge Redfeld was elected t
the supreme bench at 81. but we d
not recall from memory any man VIII
L ever S0FVGU Ill IIldC Capacity dI
, younger age"
= We would direct attention to tn
biographies of Benjamin Hinma
2 Steele, born in 1897, graduated fror
7 Dartmouth in 1857, made judge O
the Vermont supreme court in 1865
when he was % and called to his res
in 1873, aged Huntington News.
Showed Good Sense.
= The treasury department shove
good sense in abolishing the custom
) district at Newport. 1t was estat
lished under Republican rule to max
: two troughs for the politicians. Unde
g the present administration the collec
ton of customs has dwindled to sue
an extent that there is but little bus
S ness for collector and his staff. TIL
e receipts at Burlington last mont
q am 1unted to only S11, 900, in compariso
= with an average of something lik
) $50, 900 few years ago.--Brattlebor
:, Phoenix.
. Welcome Home, Brother.
}, The return of J.. P. Thayer, publishe
u of the Morrisville Messenger and dea
t of the newspaper workers of the state
e to the Republican fold is one of tn
interesting dICcI-0IGCtlOIl dIlIlOuTlCS
: ments. Mr. Thayer has resigned as
t member of the Lamoille county Pre-
It gressive committee and hereafter wi
v work for reforms inside the party wit
q which he was affiliated so many year.
Presumably Mr.. Thayer noted thu
the main effect of the Progressiv
S party activity was to keep the Dem'
s Gratis in power. -BrattlebOrO RefOrme
a Welcoming Them Home.
}. L. P. Thayer the dean of Vernon
y Press association, has been followin
!. the bull moose through the tractle.
;, wild for some seasons but ne is no
" hack in the Republican fold, where /
t is truly repentant and he intends M
o to stray again. He has resigned fro
- the Progressive district committe
- and he says he is not asking for
. brass band to welcome him home b,
)! in the future he will conduct himse
is so that he will be worthy of beir
" counted among the Republican vote
10 of Vermont. The Republican party
like the prodiga's father. glad
It receive back her lost sons.-Bradfo
Opinion.
Fletcher's Best Work
The Ludlow lr1bune nndS that 10
t. ernor Fletcher's administration
.r state affairs has been beneficial.
O instances several items and refers
- the governors attitude toward educ
- :, ton as follows: "He has broug
IL about definite educational moveme
u which has stirred the state from o
end to the other, opened the eyes
I'd people to Vermont's needs in tn
n direction, and inaugurated a campaig
which, persistently conducted. mu
70 prove of inestimable value to all co
~ cerned." To our mind the thorou
. investigation of the states education
LII system is by far the most importa
IS item of Governor Fletcher's admin
n tration 1t is an investigation pre-
or nant with big results. -BeIlows Pa
NJ Times.
be Caledonia Pulled Up.
Caledonia county is pufTed IN ov