Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-06-02
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Ex-Governor Grout Congratulated.

Ex-Governor Grout Congratulated.
The Republican wishes to extend
hearty congratulations to Former Gov
ernor Josiah Grout of Derby, who will
on Friday, May %, observe his 73d
birthday. The people of the state that
have always delighted to honor him
and whom he has always honored, will
unite in wishing him many happy re-
turns of the day.-St Johnsbury Re-
publican.
Coming to Vermont.
With western farmers coming to YER
mont to buy land, with Boston manu-
! facturers coming to Vermont to locate
factories, with New York millionaires
coming to Vermont to establish their
homes among our green hills. and with
the tourist world coming to appreciate
the beauties of "this noble pleasure
ground, the most beautiful region in
eastern America" it would seem most
idle to emphasize the inducements the
Green Mountain state offers in all
these directions. - Burlington Free
! Press.
Read Your Paper Through.
| The average reader. of a newspaper
often misses the best matter in the
paper. He looks over the display
heads, chances at the local news and
feels that the has gotten all that the
paper contains. The fact is, however,
much of the most valuable matter is in
the obscure corners, with single line
heads and nothing to attract attention.
1t is this class of matter. the select
ed reprint from other papers and the
less spectacular news that actually
contains the most varied and often the
valuable information to be found in a
newspaper. Banner.
Our Travelling Municipal Courts.
Was a blunder made at the last
session of the legislature in connection
with the enactment of municipal
court law? 1t looks that way to the
Burlington News, because the contem-
porary has secured expert testimony
on the subject from Judge Donaway of
, the Middlebury court. The judge
: thinks the law makes the municipal
court a piece of travelling machinery,
compelling it to go wherever an
offense is committed and give the re-
r spondent a common-law jury trial by
: twelve men. He indicates that thirty
five dollars for fees and fines in the
convicting of a common drunk is g
D t1ide expensive; that an error was
2 made in providing the municipal court
4 with tWeIve-man jury. a stenograph
: er, and all the paraphernalia Of a cOur
of record. 1t would naturally occur
j even to the layman, that the new Law
< piled the details on to a local cour
: in somewhat peculiar fashion ant
0 contrary to the hitherto popular ide;
: of municipal court.--LudIoW Tribune
e Fooled People for Ii ne.
The various educational publication
have not yet finished discussing tn
outcome of the Carnegie recommends
tons in the last legislature. Ever,
once in a while one comes across
+. contribute on this subject, most O
them anything but dispassionate i
I their point of view. These effuson
=, may serve to fool folks who live out
side of Vermont. but residents of tn
]. state are sufficiently acquainted wit
n the facts to need no further outside en-
lightenment. They realize now tina
opposition to the educational commits
|. sion's program was not due to VIVA
y effect it might have on the schools bu
to its contention that the college
q should not have any of the state
IF money until after the schools had bee
Systematically engineered, was so sue
?, cessful that the institutions of highe
,r learning are still drawing down subs
I. dies from funds that ought to go tow
II ard the Improvement of Vermont
elementary and secondary schools
: How long this inequitable apportior
7 ment will be tolerated. however. is
question that is sure to give certai
college presidents considerable concer
% in the near future. Re
ID former.
s. Merchants Meeting Mail Order Comp,
tition.
k An enterprising hardware dealer c
c. South Royalton has framed up a
N argument in favor of home trading e
against mail order patronage tia
counts more than all the "WeepS" the
y, have been put up by distressed loo;
~ merchants who see their trade slippin
~ away to these big houses. This deale
. has made price comparison of forty
one standard articles of large consuml
Y. ton, giving in one column the ma
r, order prices and in another his owl
On On some articles he beats the ma
OIueT uOuSS anu OH OIu9TS the mdrg
:. is slightly against him. The aggr
=; gate as we'll as the average, shows
III balance in his favor. In fact, he NEE
mail order competition straight throue
Mt his stock. When it is considered tn
n, his price means delivery at his sto
ad after the customer has seen and exar
to ined the goods, while the mail ord
RS price means that charges from Ne
York, or Chicago must be paid. to S;
nothing of the liability of damage
y. transit and the delay and the, great
ne difficulty in securing an adjustment
the purchases are not satisfactory,
in is clear that there is no excuse f
L. sending away. What this dealer h
*, done, others IN other lines can d
Merchants can sell at a reasonat
profit and still undersell these m;