Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-01-27

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of Derby for his successor as state
highway commissioner. This appoint
ment was promptly confirmed by the
! senate and the new road commissioner
will have his headquarters al Franklin
and continue the good work that our
present governor has carried on so
successfully for the past decade. Mr..
Bates has been the efficient highway
supervisor of Orleans county, which
can boast of some of the finest roads
| in the state of Vermont. If you don't
| believe this. just take an automobile
trip from Willoughby lake to Newport
or from Derby to the Canadian line.
Orleans county had nearly $50 900 to
spend on her 1172 miles of highway
last year and ranked fifth among the
counties of the state in road expendi-
lures. being exceeded only in the
order named by Windsor, Rutland,
Addison and Washington countless
Springfield Reporter.
A Chance to Help Vermont.
MiddIebury college trustees have
adopted the "Made in Vermont" slo-
gan and have let the contract for their
new Mead Memorial chapel to YER
mont man. In fact, most of the large
public buildings being erected in Yer
mont, or those erected in recent
years, are the work of contractors who
have their residence and their business
in Vermont. Moreover. in the case Of
the Middlebury college contract the
exterior material is to be dug from
Vermont quarries. It is no narrow
provinciaism to desire to limit as much
as possible our business activities to
the confines of our own state, especially
in those cases where good service and
excellent materials are assured ; nor is
it manifestation of sefishness it
is. on the contrary. the evidence of
E loyalty to home interests that is
greatly to be commended and that
ought to be encouraged as much as
possible. The business interests of
7 Vermont can be advanced in large
, measure if adherence to this policy is
maintained in large number of lines,
not the least of which is in the ner-
camille business. Altogether too much
[ Vermont money goes out of the state
S in trading with mail order houses
: money which never comes back to the
state and which, therefore. goes to
l swell the resources Of some other far
S distant state to our own decided loss.
= 1t is due to Vermont merchants who
9 pay taxes in Vermont cities and towns
and who assist in all the good work
of building up Vermont and her cities
S and towns that this money be spent
d in their stores. Furthermore. those
o who are accustomed to trading with
the far distant concerns should bear in
t mind that trading at home helps the
selves Indirectly in lifting the burden
of support of government at home by
o increasing the grand list of the state
= Therefore, the letting of the Middle
: bury college contract to a Vermont
s concern with the stipulation that Yer
6 mont marble be used should find its
counterpart in most of the other activ
tiles of the state.-Barre Times.
n Two Lyndon Boys.
Il 1t now transpires that Gov Whitman
of New York was "near" Vermontel
y because when he was seven years OLE
e his father was pastor at the Congrega
g tional church at Lyndon and the boy
n played around there with the othe
: boys Of the village for over year
t Some years later it is current in tina
town that he returned to his boyhoot
scenes and drove livery team from
q Willoughby lake to Lyndonville consid
- erably in excess of the speed limit
Il but that's another story" as Kiplins
al says. At any rate he "arrived," a
Is he has ever since in his political races
y And this reminds US that few Vermont
I'll ers know that Lawrence Barrett. on
IN of the grea test Shakesperian actor
e this country ever produced, also spen
,s his early boyhood IN Lyndon, though
- generation preceding the time tia
- Cow Whitman was there. The Bar
IS rett family came to Lyndon in 1874
a. and lived there about six years. Hi
# father was. tailor, poor in thi
worlds goods yet he believed in educa
~ ting his children and Lawrence frs
r. attended the district school and late
Ie Lyndon academy. His teacher in tn
1c district school once told the write
40 that she distinctly remembered the DO
rd when ten years old as by far the mos
ay gentlemanly fellow in the school,
We faithful pupil. good reader and spel
:. Ter. After few terms at the distric
-. school he entered Lyndon academy an
those who were associated with him
he that institution, among whom was tn
cb writer's father, recall the interest h
took in rhetoricals and mis- especii
2n fondness for speaking pieces, part {
FL the school curriculum which the othe
boys and girls always dreaded.
short time before his death Mr.. Ba
rett wrote the editor of the Lyndo
Union the following charming remini!
a. cence of these school days:
~ "My memory gratefully goes back
~, the village as the place where game
LII the beginnings of such learning as
possess, and to the fair teacher WI
I was so kind to me; to the beautifl
We hills about the quiet town. and to til
SIS placid stream in which 1 so ofte
ry bathed. ] have not dared in my mai
hood to go back to Lyndon, fearful {
disturbing the sweet influence whic
~ was there impressed upon my mind,
D., contemplation of changes which OF
IL progressive life brings to all the coul
lie. try. But | hope yet to see Lyndon
AMI | shall roam over Minister'S hill
IN. the SchOOlhOuS0 the hollow.
- Mr. Barrett never saw Lyndon again