Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-09-29

this year Will De only OU per cent OIL
the normal yield. owing to blight and
the rot caused in part by the blight.
Potatoes which were sprayed are in
excellent condition, but rows in the
same field which were not sprayed are
almost a total failure. Brethren,
looking ahead to 1916, let US spray
Brattleboro Reformer
Wants Lowell in Lamoille County.
One of the finest finland" villages
in nor thern Vermont, is Lowell Fiji
teen miles from railroad to the north
and 20 to TIE south, it is village that
shows thrift and progress in various
directions. 1t has several well-stocked
stores. fine churches, a model school
building, and with creamery, grist-
mill and sawmill. besides other indus
tries, exhibits a spirit of prosperity
that is rot surpassed IN viIlapes that
have the benefit of railroads and closer
proximity to the larger places. It's
well-kept streets. fine residences and
splendid sidewalks. make it an attrsc-
tive and thrifty village. Lowell ought
to be in Lamoille county. Hyde Park
News and Citizen.
Difficulties in Many Fields.
After eleven years of checkered
newspaper management. o. R. Clayton
of the Londonderry Sitter announces
the sale of that paper to George G..
Dixon of Wilmington. an experienced
"small-town'' publisher. 1t is fitting
to note in this connection the extreme
difficulty attending the successful
like Wilmington, Groton, Island Pond,
Troy. Richford and Londonderry.
Limited fields, strictly restricted
revenue, great difficulty in keeping
printers, dearth of news and the con-
slant competition of city papers are
among the handicaps of the small
| town publisher. Every year the light
| is kept burning by men like Dixon,
Lord, Bishop. Butterfield, Maloney,
Reed or Clayton is distinct accom-
| plishment. All honor to the small
town publishers. -Rutland Herald.
Prohibit 1t.
| Franklin county jury has just &C.
quilted the proprietor of the famous
line house between Richford and Aber-
corn. Canada, of the charge of illegal
liquor selling, and now the federal
authorities accuse him of smuggling
and propose to take hand One of
the most disgusting features of the
| liquor business is not only the democrat
ization it produces in those who drink,
but the wholesale hypocricy it engend-
ers in those who dispense and the
lamentab]e quibbling and squirming
resorted to in the attempt to evade
the legal consequences. A notorious
bootlegger with one arm in Canada and
hip pocket in the United States can
| hr1c L; r.
hearts content and when caught and
accused of illegally, simply swa-s
over the other arm and the other leg
and stoutly maintains that the authori-
ties are mistaken in their man. If
anyone should attempt such quibble
in the sale of cotton cloth or fence
posts or any other commodity he would
feel the hand of the law so quickly that
he would have half his Jail sentence
served before the liquor dealers case
came up in court for continuance.
Liquor not only halts the self-respect
of the drInker, but deadens all sense of
truth and decency of all who have any
thing to do with it. 1t is deadly,
dangerous. Why take any chances
with it whatsoever? Why not cut il
out altogether? Why not prohibit it!
st. Johnsbury Republican.
Ford's New Machine for The Farmer.
The New York Evening journal
recently printed an editorial concerning
a gasoline traction engine Hen1y Ford
the famous builder of the Ford auto
mobiles. was to put upon the market
soon. The Journals story is so inter
esting the Monitor reprints the essen.
tial part of it.
The machine is snail, externally
powerful
First you see it pulling a double dise
harrow, cutting up the rough earth EFF
by the pioW.
An old man with white beard j:
driving the wonderful little machine
rapidly pulling the harrow. The,
you see the same machine and the sam,
old man driving it. Behind tn.
machine there is gang plow. ant
Henry Ford himself. standing uy
straight on the platform of the gant
plow. Is working the plowshares
attending to the shifting arounl C )rn
: ers and other management.
After the exhibition of the harrow
and the plow, comes cultivating tn,
corn. You see the machlne with cult
vator behind it, and only one maj
operating machine and cuitivator goins
through the cornfeld.
Then later you see the same machin,
with the wheels changed to higi
wheels going through the corn wher
1T is knee-hgh This change Of wheel
makes 1t possible to cult ate corn S.
high that team could not safely e.
: through it.
2 You see this same wonderful littI
engine pulling gigantic load sucn a
would take at least three teams O
i. horses to pull. The load is so heav,
that while the moving picture is work
ing one of the great wheels of tn
truck oreaks down and drops the load
The little machine has BEN pullin,
load so heavy that a huge whee
: and iron axle go down under II.
Mr., Ford plans to arrange his machin
7 so that it can be used to Go station
I airy farm work as we'll as hauling
machInarU Tt will