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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

The papers of the state are agitated
over the landslide at Willoughby and
fear some awful catastrophe may
happen unless action to make landslides
impossible in the future is taken. The
Monitor has quoted much of this COM
ment elsewhere. It notes all through
these articles unstinted praise of the
beauty of Willoughby which is good
advertising. The danger of landslides
is practically negligible.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

The Bennington Banner agrees with
the Monitor that the new state board
of education will have big job on it's
hands to get things whipped into shape
under the new school laws in the few
remaining weeks of this year and the
comparatively short time before the
opening of another school year, but
says the new board of education has
been appointed. Who are they? Is
not the Banner mistaken? With sever
al other papers. it has called the board
of agriculture and forestry, the board
of education. 1t appears to the Moni-
tor that it is great mistake to keep
educational matters in such state of
uncertainty any longer. The task is a
large one and the time already too
short in which to perform the duty
properly.-Since the above was writ
ten, the Banner has corrected it's
erroneous statement.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Crieved at Editors Note on Chicago.

Chicago, ILL.,. May 10, 1915.
Dear Monitor:
Not long ago read an interesting
letter written by your editor in which
he mentions his stop in Chicago while
touring the country. His criticism of
our city prompts me to come to it's
defense, and l firmly believe if he
were here this glorious May morning,
could persuade him to moderate his
opinion.
"Dirty Chicago, windy Chicago"
wicked Chicago" are stereotyped
terms or the obsolete terms of the
obsolete class, counting for little,
where actual facts are known, but
leaving bad impression where people
are ignorant of real conditions.
Your editor confesses to a mere
/ stopover between trains. admitting
| that he did not see much of the city.
We only presume as much since Chi
cago ranks fourth in size among the
great cities of the world. One cannot
see Chicago in day or two, much less
| in few hours. Nor do railway en-
frances to a city usually give best
| impressions. No doubt he arrived at
one station and left by another, neces-
stating crossing the famous LOOP
| district. or down town section, and one
does not form good opinions or get
good impressions from wholesale
houses, elevated structures or grimy
buildings.
| We are forced to sorrowfully admit
that there is deal of smoke, SCOT and
dust; that we must scrub our faces,
our linens and our buildings more
frequently than we would in Barton.
but Kinks Soap factory is here. Lake
| oh s1 f,,I Al
joy withal of living in Chicago COM
pensates for most of the drawbacks.
Have you ever seen boy that grew
so fast that you could see the bottom
of his trousers shrink away from his
shoetops, or girl that shot upward so
rapidly that her mother despaired of
being able to let down tucks and hens
fast enough to keep her respectable?
Those cases are parallel with the
growth of Chicao The city has made
such rapid strides that it has been
impossible to keep pace with it but
when it has passed the adolescent
period. there can be no doubt that it
will be one of the finest cities in the
world.
Chicago has more than tripled in size
since the days of the Worlds fair. 1t
grew so fast that the magnificent new
postoffice. eight years in building,
proved wholly inadequate for its needs.
The building of hundreds of miles of
new streets, providing necessary
transportation for the public. the hous-
ing of the multitudes. required imme-
date attention. The present needs
were too great to give careful atten-
ton to details that go to make up a
perfect city. In the hustle there was
no time to consider identification of
railroads, and thus do away with the
smoke nuisance Franchises were
given, and it takes time to change
them. If some Of our methods seem
ancient or antiquated. remember we
have not, up to the present time, been
we can improve conditions. Some day
the great rush will be over, and then
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
you should do so.-St. Johnsbury Gale

you should do so.-St. Johnsbury Gale
donian.
The above applies to every town in
the state where there is local paper.
The mail order houses get their bust
ness solely by advertising and if the
local merchant would as persistently
advertise his wares in his home paper
there would be much less out-oftown
trading. Are you advertising in your
local paper? Or do you depend upon
people just happening in? There is
not successful firm in the country
that is not good advertiser.-North.
field News.
MIR. Wallis Useful Hobby.
Lyndon institute at Lyndonville will
have number of very distinguished
speakers at it's commencement exer-
cises next month. including such per-
sonages as President John Hibben,
successor to Woodrow Wilson at Prince
ton university, President John H.
Filey of New York university and
of directors of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, besides
Theodore N. Vail, who, as president of
the institution, is expected to give out
the diplomas thereby hangs
tale. 1t is frankly understood that this
company of mental giants will have
been brought together on that occasion
through the efforts of Mr.. Vail. whose
active interest in the Lyndon institute
for number of years has been matter
of general knowledge. In fact, Lyndon
institute may be said to be Theodore
N. Wallis hobby.
He has fostered it and cared for it
as for favorite child. He has never
been too busy-and the man who intro
duced the American system of electric
railways in Buenos Ayres and installed
the telephone systems in all the prin-
cipal cities, and who is president of
the American telegraph and telephone
company, the Western Union telegraph
company, and president or director of
half a hundred or so other corporations
in this and other countries, is very
busy man-to give his attention to the
needs and welfare of Lyndon institute.
He has made that little school actually
great, if splendid success in given line
of worthy endeavor may count as an
element of greatness. One result is
that when he hands out the diplomas
; to this years graduates of the Lyndon
school of agriculture. he will perform
that function for the last time to
members of graduating class from
CnaI department as part OF Lyndon
institute; for the school of agriculture,
owing in very large part to the posi-
tion of Importance to which Mr.. Vail
has raised it. will become state
institution at the close of this school
year. After all. the man without a
hobby is rare specimen in this world.
Some men have hobbies without even
being conscious of the fact. Your man
who ACCOMMODATES things is almost
invariably man with hobby. Keep
your eye closely upon him and see if
this is not true. 1t applies as we'll to
women as to men. The important
desideratum is that the hobby should
be. like this of Mr.. Wallis, one that
contains possibilities for genuine and
permanent good. Lyndon institute is
: monument to a hobby-in fact, it
itself is hobby. Thank heaven fol
such hobbies. Manchester IN. H.. }
Union.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
we shall expect to meet these condi.

we shall expect to meet these condi-
tons with proper remedy.
Chicago today does more for her
people than any other city on the con-
tinent. She has one of the finest
systems of free parks to be found in
the world When I say "free parks, :"
| mean parks where people may get
into the open, sit on the grass, play
games and enjoy themselves. None
of the "Keep off the Grass" business
here. And yet, they are all beautiful.
| If the public wears tout the grass the
commissioners replace the sod. and
those who pay for the parks live to
enjoy them.
Our Fairgrounds. bathing beaches
and amusement places are constantly
other city gives to the public so many
privileges as Chicago does. The art
museum. Fields museum of natural
history, public Libraries. ETC., are open
free to the public all or part of the
time, and the welfare and settlement
work of Chicago is famous the world
over. There is but one Jane Adams,
but there are hundreds of others who
assist in lettering conditions. Chi
cago is not perfect-yet, but it has
ideals, and time will work wonders
Meanwhile we have many advantages
to offer.
l am writing in Jackson park at the
present moment, beside the Lagoon of
Worlds Fair days. Could your good
editor sit where do, with placid Lake
Michigan, rejecting a few fieecy
clouds, which are scudding across the
heavens. with the fresh green of
springtime on every hand, if he could
get the scent of the lilacs that just
!, now swept across the Lagoon, and
hear the happy birds breaking their
hearts over the return of the mating
season, if he could see the long string
of patient fishermen sitting along the
pier waiting for bite, and the nurse
, girls watching their precious charges
sporting on the green sward. would
he find Chicago so Objectionable
Could he see the one hundred free
tennis courts all busy with virile play
/ ers, the splendid 18-hole links, covered
with animated golfers, the endless
procession of automobiles coursing the
tree-lined avenues, would the grin
buildings of the Loop stand, spectre
= like. as representative of our city?
There is dark side to any big city
and we are aware of our shortcomings
A city can never be like a country
town. We lack the hills of dear ole
:, Vermont. but Chicago has many beau
tifuI spots, many advantages that on,
cannot find in the hill country The
: black eye which Chicago got,so long ag
= has begun to clear and we just ask il
: all fairness that you do not give j
another poke, unjustjy. l could tel
+ you of thousand interesting things.
hundred terrible things about Chicago
if had time and space. but all I asl
is that you give US a fair scrutin
before you condemn, and l will be gla
to assist any of the Monitor reader
visiting Chicago, to see things whic
3 will tend to give better impressio
n of our great city, than one will get il
e crossing town from one railway static
I to another.
s George Frederic Wheeler,
e 6019 Dorchester Ave.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

The Monitor IS printing this week a
long letter from a former resident of
Barton. who is now in Chicago, de-
Tending that city against the editors
paragraph about that place in his
letters to the Monitor while on his
recent western trip. The Monitor has
another and most interesting lette,
from former Barton man now in
Topeka, Kans.. which will appear next
week. This is most complimentary
letter to Barton and Vermont and will
be we'll worth looking for in our next
issue.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

Despite the fact that most Progress
sives themselves admit the party is
dead in Vermont, Fraser Metzger of
Randolph and the Burlington Clipper
refuse to abandon the corpse. and hope
to breathe life into it. It will take a
strong stimulant, applied with a mas
ter hand to make the rather useful
Progressive party take another breath,
to say nothing of getting the blood to
circulate through the entire body and
make it to walk about. The Monitor
doesn't blame the Randolph brother
for hope. The deceased has given him
lot of valuable publicity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
HOw'S This /?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALF S
Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY G. CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
couS surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price IS cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
A Seventy-Year-OId Couple.

Pa, suffered from kidney trouble for many
years but have been entirely cured by
Foley Kidney Pills. He says: ALTHOUGH
orous as we were thirty years ago." Foley
Kidney Pills stop sleep disturbing bladder
weakness, backache, rheumatisnHapd ach-
ing joints.
Austin's Pharmacy, Orleans, VT; w. s.
Mcdowell, Evansville: J. B. Holton, West
Charleston.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Flesh Of Various Animals,

Tiger flesh is eaten in many parts of
India, though it is somewhat tough
and sinewy. Lion flesh is very good
to eat, and much in favor among the
Hottentots and other South African
tribes, who are also as fond of rhi-
noceros as any good Englishman is of
a rump-steak Rhinoceros flesh tastes
rather like something between beef
and pork
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

No finer tribute can be paid to a
man by his townsmen than that paid
DR.. Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury on the
occasion of his 10Th birthday as told of
in our news columns.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

You are invited to read the Monitor S
new serial beginning this week. "Par-
rot & Co.," by the well-known author,
Harold MacGrath.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Infection in the Air.

Medical authorities agree that colds are
infectious. In some cities children with
colds are from schools o,S
quickest and safe way to stop colds, coughs
and Group is to give Foley's Honey and Tar
Com pound.
Austin's Pharmacy. Orleans, VT: w. s.
Mcdowell, Evansville: ]. B. Holton, West
Charleston.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Thst Willoughby Cliff.

Having seen and admired the beau
ties of Lake Willoughby. we quite
agree with the Brattleboro Reformer
that it is one of the incest spots in the
whole country, and we think that the
roadway at the base could be made
much safer by examination of the side
of the cliff as far as possible to locate
and dislodge balancing rocks which
might be sent HURTING down on the
road at the least impetus. To make a
thorough and minute examination of
the entire side of the cliff would be
quite an engineering feat. we agree,
and out of the question perhaps under
existing conditions but somewhat less
work and less expense would do much
to insure the safety of hundreds of
people, who are in the habit of congre-
eating at the base of the cliff we be-
lieve. If so, the work ought to be
done.-Rarre Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
ADVERTISING

Cards of thanks, 50c- Resolutions,
81 0O. Reading notices 10c per line
for insertion. Classified advertising
terms at top of column one, page one.
Display advertising rates upon ap-
plication.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Barton,

Being under a strong conservative manage
ment; with plenty of money to handle its trade,
be it large or small, is prepared to give its most
prompt and careful attention to all business
entrusted to it, and it solicits part of yours.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

The Greater Vermont association
should live, prosper and have the active
support of all good Vermonters.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
SUBSCRIPTIONS

One year $1-5O. Six months, 75c.
Eight months, 81. Four months Soc.
Invariably in advance.
When your subscription expires the
paper stops.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19

It's not too late to "clean up'' now.
if you didn't do it during cleanup"
week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Not Worried.

The Barre Times, in noting the
side of Willoughby lake, comments on
the possibilities of disaster at that
point. and calls for an examination of
the side of the cliff to see that no more
rocks remain there that might be
loosened and sent hurting down on
human beings at the bottom. We feel
certain that the Times writer has
never gaZed upon the scenic glories at
Willoughby. On one side Mount Pts
gah rises precipitously from the lake to
a height of something like $500 and on
the opposite side Mount Hor is nearly
as high. There is barely room for
roadway on the Mount Pisgah side and
on the western shore not even trail
has ever been blazed. The cliff of
Mount Pisgah has sheer fall of 900
feet making it the greatest precipice
| in the eastern part of North America
with the exception of the break on the
| Saguenay, which Murray described as
of lawful grandeur" An examination
of the Mount Pisgah cliff would hardly
| be the pastime of drowsy summer
! day. Landslides at Willoughby have
occurred at intervals from the time
since man first knew the region and
probably for ages before. These slides
always take place in the spring when
the rocks have become loosened from
the alternate freezing and thawing
effects. The conditions of the highway
at the foot of the mountain have Gale
for state aid in the past and such aid
will undoubtedly be required in the
future, as the town of Westmore con-
tains less than $50 inhabitants and has
high tax rate. To make the cliff
safe would be an engineering problem
of gigantic magnitude. -Brattleboro
Reformer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.


The Bristol Herald has just closed a
period of Sc years under the aggressive
and energetic management of the
Wilson brothers. and in observance of
the suspicious event the contemporary
enumerates some of the noteworthy
ojects and public improvements it has
instituted and helped push to crafty
ing contamination. A news paper
worthy of the name is continually put
ting its community under deep debt of
obligation in score of ways which do
not readily suggest themselves to the
cursory reader, in the line of publicity
and the promotion of the common veal
in manifold ways. The Herald has
been in the vanguard of progress, and
Bristol is to be congratulated upon the
possession of so loyal and progressive
journal as the esteemed Wilson
brothers have made the Herald. -
Burlington Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Vermont's Marble Ouarries.

The greatest marble producing in
dustry in the world is no longer to be
found in the famous Carrara district of
Italy, but in Vermont, where one of
the richest veins in the world stretches
in an irregular line across the state.
So great is the production of marble
in this section that the inhabitants
have lost much of their appreciation
of it's value and use it for such humble
and utilitarian purposes as paving,
underpinning for barns, hitching posts,
stepping stones, and drinking troughs
for horses. The vein is about 81 miles
long, from 1,650 to 1900 feet in width,
and from it are being taken enormous
quantities of white marble that is
equal to the finest Italian marble, as
we'll as an endless variety of blue.
yellow. green and jet-black marbles.
For quarrying and finishing the marble
the most up-to-date methods are used,
no part of the work being done by
hand that can possibly be done by
machinery. Hand methods of drilling,
still in vogue in Italy, have been
entirely superseded by power-driven
drills and channeling machines. The
blocks as they come from the quarry
are handled by derricks and are con-
veyed in most cases by an inclined
railway or ropeway to the mills, where
they are sawed and shaped by power
driven machines, the last delicate stage
of polishing being done by hand
| Popular Mechanics
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
Mail Order Houses Depend upon A.
vertising.

Last week we attempted to show
how people are somtimes Influenced by
the price of goods rather than their
quality and patronize mail order
house rather than the home merchant
We would suggest to the home mer-
chant the Importance of following the
methods of the mail order house.
Many nom advertising merchant de-
ponds upon the people who come into
his store for a sale while the mail
order house reaches out beyond it's
store through advertising. If the
home merchant would do the same and
create demand for his goods through
plain, frank advertisements in his
home newspaper the mail order house
could not compete with him. It takes
gumption and work to do such a thing
but if the merchant should make an
honest effort he would soon find that
he too can sell goods to people who
have never even seen his store 1t is
proper to trade with your home mer-
chant but it is quite as proper for your
home merchant to let you know why
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-19
A Good Vermont Example.

| No wonder the Barre Times wakes
editorially enthusiastic over the
achievement of a nearby town. 1t
writes: Zone of the most effective
and praiseworthy competitions we
have heard of in some time was that
just concluded in the town of Chelsea,
where the boys Of the public school
were interested in a campaign for
destruction of the tent caterpillar.
The boys worked vigorously and when
the time came for summing up the
results it was found that total of
$4,000 clusters of the eggs had been
gathered, and those clusters destroyed.
That total is small as compared with
the whole number now to be found
throughout Vermont; but it was a
splendid start on most valuable cam
paign. Chelsea has set the ball a.
line for the consummation of fine
work" AS agricultural experts main
tain that each egg cluster of the tent
caterpillar moth contains an average
of 200 eggs, the precisian may work
out for himself just what was accom-
plished. Chelsea's local paper informs
US that Lucas took the first prize in
easy fashion with a total of IL, 49e
clusters. We should think he might.
But the best thing about the Chelsea
performance is that it represents a
training in practical citizenship. A
civilized community is one where peo-
pie think themselves, and act. not as
irresponsible units, but as members
one of another. and that means pulling
together. National Weekly.
Mail Order Houses Depend upon Ad
vertising.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-11-04
MOTHERS motions"
Good for Young People to Follow.

My little grandson often comes up
to show me how large the muscles of
his arms are.
He was q delicate child, but has de-
veloped into a strong, healthy boy and
Postum has been the principal factor.
Il was induced to give him the Post
um because of my own experience
with it.
81 am sixty years old, and have been
victim OF nervous dyspepsia for
many years. Have tried all sorts of
medicines and had treatment from
many physicians, but no permanent re-
lief came.
Il used to read the Postum adver-
tisemelts in our paper. At first | gave
but little attention to them, but finally
something in one of the advertise
ments made me conclude to try Pos.
tum.
Il was very particular to have 1t
prepared strictly according to direc-
tions, and used good. rich cream. 1t
was very nice indeed, and about bed
time said to the members of the fam
lily that believed | felt better. One
of them laughed and said, That's an
other Of mothers notions, but the no
tion has not left me yet.
Il continued to improve right along
after leaving off coffee and taking
Postum, and now after three years
use feel so well that | am almost
young again. / know Postum was the
cause of the change in my health and
! cannot say too much In its favor. |
wish could persuade all nervous peo.
pie to use It,"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum cereal-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack.
lges.
Instant Pcstum-a soluble powder
lissolyes quickly in cup of hot water,
and, with cream and sugar. makes a
delicious beverage instantly. zoe and
Soc tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.