Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-21
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
The Coventry Fire.

WHAT HE PAPERS SAY.
The Coventry Fire.
The village of Coventry didn't have
any fire protection: the village of
Coventry lost two house, two barns
and a Schoolhouse and town hail.
Nothing further need be said.-Barre
Times.
Vermont in the Lead.
The Manchester Union has been
studying the governments crop stats.
tics and is surprised to find that Yer
mont leads New Hampshire in the
production of corn, wheat, barley,
potatoes, apples and other crops. If
it would extend it's research to other
Hampshire is commonly known as the
Granite state it is far behind Vermont
in the value of both rough and finished
granite sent to other states. -Brattle-
boro Reformer.
A Tried Fire-Fighter for Small Villages
Every village should have some fire.
fighting equipment. Such a service
was tried out here Friday at the Groton
Turning Works fire and demonstrated
it's excellent points. This is but a
repeat of former trials and tells most
plainly that village remaining with
out a chemical engine or good water
pressure is surely running amazing
risks. Groton was long time getting
to the point of purchasing such an
equipment but no regrets are heard
today, only praise for it's good work.
A few hundred dollars invested will
save thousands of dollars of property.
Again we urge every village not sup
piled to act at once. The fire fiend
cometh at unknown hours. and the
only safe way is to be ready.-Groton
Times.
Alcoholic Beverages Must Go.
| The war against king alcohol goes
forward steadily and the heaviest blows
are not being struck by fiery agitators.
| After Jan. l whiskey and brandy are
to be dropped from the edition of the
United States Pharmacopeia, which is
the standard of pharmacists the coun-
try over. This means that whiskey
and brandy have been declared official
ly to be neither drugs nor medicine,
and cannot legally be sold by druggists
as medicine. After Jan. it will be
necessary for the druggist to Danish
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to take out a retail liquor dealer S
license, instead of paying $25 year
internal revenue fee. The action of
the pharmacopeia committee is recog-
nized as a severe blow to the liquor
traffic, particularly in "dry' terri
tory, where it is next to impossible to
obtain liquor except in the guise of
medicine. This step will also put out
of business a number of patent medi-
cines which practically are little more
than whiskey or brandy and are valued
chiefly for that character BRAT
toro Reformer.
Tres Earn Tn. i Keep
"Shade trees earn their keep" says
an editor in a land where there are not
a great many trees Oklahoma. "They
shut out the heat of the MONDAY sun
and prevent the earth from becoming
heated around the house When the
sun disappears in the evening, the
house soon cools. making sleep possible
and refreshing. In large cities. when
the bricks in the walls of the buildings
and those of the streets become thor
J oughly heated the night rest is broken.
1t is no wonder that city folks HE
themselves to the country to find that
home. These words from a state
that is short on trees are as applicable
right here as they are out there.
Every tree in this city is paying it's
keep. They are something more than
ornaments. There is no more beauti-
full picture than trees about a house,
and we could we'll afford to cultivate
them and take care of them, even if
there were nothing else at stake but
their beauty: but when we remember
that they help US to live more comfort
ably, when we know that they make
life more pleasant because of their
help in modifying the temperature, we
ought to he willing to encourage them
for their utility alone.-Dayton News.
Back Telephone Bills.
The question of the right of tele-
phone company to cut off service on
failure of subscriber to pay bills in
of decision from the Supreme Court
of the United States-and the decision
is in favor of the company. This par
ticular case was known as the Arkan-
sas telephone case. Mrs Adelia T.
| Danaher, subscriber of the South
western Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany. brought suit under an Arkansas
statute and recovered substantial
penalties because of the failure of the
telephone company to supply her with
| s. rvice for period of 63 days. JUS
tice Van Devanter found that as
matter of fact and of common practice
the regulation made by telephone COM
panles which provided that it's sub
scrbers' service might be terminated
for failure to pay arrears was reason
able regulation in the interest alike of
a good telephone service and of the
paying subscribers No matter how
any particular individual may feel
about the matter as his telephone
communication is cut eff for non
pay ment of back bilI-even one he
may think he has good cause to dispute
he must remember that the nine
black -robed gentlemen in WASHINGTON