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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
Vermont Changers Meet.
The 18th annual meeting of the \

The 18th annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Grange met in a three
days session at Rutland last week.
The Grange has $4,000 members in
1876 subordinate Oranges in the state,
according to Secretary A. L. Priest
Of Randolph. There are % Pomona
Oranges. In comparison with year
ago the present total membership va
ries very little. The Grange has
permanent fund of 81, 5S4.37 and
current fund of $5,709.08, according
to Treasurer F. B. Pier of Brattle-
boro. The expenditures of the last
year for officers fees, delegates ex-
penses, ETC., amounted to $3,335.45.
Changers of Vermont who took adj
vantage of the Patrons Cooperative
Fire Insurance company made an ac-
tual saving of So to 81 on each thou
sand dollars of insurance taken out,
according to Judge A. W. Foote of
Cornwall who gave talk on insur-
ance for Changers.
Among the speakers were Judge j..
E. Weeks of Middlebury, Hon. W. j..
Lowell, master of the New York State
Grange, State Master Cody and Com
missioner of Education Hillegas:
Mr.. Cady said: "The man who in
NoSCS Ills ClIuO anu Cd plCdl LII oil 1l1COl-
ligent manner in the business of agri-
culture in Vermont is going to win"
He pointed out that Vermont is ap-
preaching an era of agricultural pros
perity with farms increasing in value
and better methods of cultivation and
fertilization, greater interest in or
charding, purer bred stock and I'M
proved methods of marketing.
FARMERS CAN COOPERATE.
He said: at has often been said
| that farmers, because of their scat
tered condition and spirit of indepen-
| dence, cannot cooperate, but l think
thatwe are proving that this is not So
The combining of milk shippers to OBJ
tain better prices is a notable refuta-
ton of this notion. Cow testing asso.
| Citations in which Vermont leads, CO.
operative creameries, farmers clubs
potato growing associations prove that
to be independent we must combine
forces" He urged support of the
| Grange educational fund, saying tha'
farmers are learning more and more
the need of trained mind to acquire
success in agriculture.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20

forgiveness and promised balm for
every heartache?"
The hopeless look from the faded
brown eyes answered even better than
his words, "He is too late"
Tears were coursing down the cheek
Of the younger man as he leaned over
the gatepost and whispered: "Could
I Sec" but something in the hard
face of the other arrested his words
and he did not finish.
For a moment Of untold length both
stood in silence, and then the tracer
of imaginary lines moved from the
gateway, motioning the other inside.
"It might ease her last hours, and
then" He pointed toward the Sec
ton line down which the prodigal had
come, ''that will take you back to your
old haunts, wherever they may be
that" pointing toward the south,
you'd best not take; it's not much
but a trail, and leads to God knows
where, but north or south, take one"
Hours later, as the village doctor
drew up before the house, the prodigal
emerged from the sickroom, and, tax
ing his hat from the peg, strobe with
faltering step out into the gathering
| twilight. At the road he halted mo-
ment and stood with barred head, then
| turned-southward.
Almost out of sight of his boyhood
home he hesitated and turned for one
last look. Suddenly the cracking OF
footsteps in the stubble and the la
bored breathing of a man caught his
ear, and in q moment his father was
beside him, but how changed. The
face before so cold and hard was sof
tened now with pity and compassion
and from out the faded brown eyes
shone mingled hope and love and for
giveness. With hands clasped an(
hearts receptive to the spirit of thu
morrow, they stood, while the eldel
whispered :"She will live; come home,
and then two kneeling figures were
dimly silhouetted against the darken
ing sky, while a prayer almost maud
! BILE assembled to the mercy seat.
He arose, and with his fathers arm
about him and the Christmas spirit fill
ing both their hearts, the prodiga
turned back from the road that led t,
"God knows where"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
COMMISSIONER HILLEGAS.

Commissioner Hillegas took as his
topic, "The Education of the Village
and Rural Child" He said he be-
lieved that better understanding of
the school transportation law would
remedy the present abuses of it. He
believed that no one is in a position to
change this law until it is carefully
studied and watched. The commits
sioner deprecated the practice of dis
figuring schoolhouses in endeavoring
to make repairs that are inaccordance
with law and called attention to the
improvement in the standard of the
teaching force in the state within a
short time.
Of the rural high school problem he
said: "The condition which makes it
necessary for the boy and girl to
leave home in order to have high
school privileges is to be deplored."
The homeneeds the boys and girls and
they need their homes. One child out
of every five in Vermont cities are
found in high school and outside of the
cities less than one in every ten. There
is need of development of a high
school which can care for the village
boys and girls. A junior high school,
which is now much favored by educa-
tors, will help to solve the problem.
Mr.. Hillegas dwelt at length upon the
character of the work in junior high
schools
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: Master, Willis N.
Cady, Middlebury; overseer, G.. C.
Flint, Randolph; lecturer, o. L. Mar
tin, Plainfeld; steward, E. M. Farr,
Chester.
A resolution touching pure-bred
cattle was as follows:
"Resolved that the legislative COM
mittee and Individual members take
steps to secure enactment of the law
which will hereafter limit the valua-
ton Of pure-bred cattle in Vermont
state purchase of taxation to ar
amount not to exceed 500 head anc
that the secretary send a copy OF
this resolution to the chairman of the
senate committee on agriculture al
the session of the general assembly,
Resolutions covering the following
subjects were also adopted: Object
ing to the consolidation to any de
partment with the state agriculture
department so that the commissions,
would give less time to agricultur,
than at present; recognizing the eff
cheney of the present Vermont educa
tional law and urging that no chang
es be made by the legislature; favor
ing cooperation on the part of Pomo
ma and subordinate Oranges wit
the New England Milk Producers as
ISOLATION; cooperation with the agri
cultural extension work; asking a.
increased appropriation from tn
state for the home economics depart
ment; endorsing the action of the Ma
tional Grange relative to the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic and favor
ing the exclusion of liquor advertise
ments from the mail; commendin
United States Senator Carroll S. Pag
on his attitude on the vocationa
training bill
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
Salaries With Silver Innings.


The highest salaried man in Japan
does not receive enough money in that
form to pay for the gasoline used by
his automobile, for salaries of the man.
ayers of business corporations are in
significantly small, says the japan
Times. Salaries, however, are not the
total income of business men. Under
the Japanese custom there is a liberal
bonus system, and the bonus amounts
to 800 or 400 times the monthly sal
airy in some cases.
The Mitsui company is regarded as
the biggest corporation in Japan, and
its directors are noted for their large
incomes Each director is said to re-
ceive in the form of a bonus about
100000 a year, although his salary
may be only $3.50 month.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20

front room of the small dwelling and
then letting his troubled gaze wander
far up the section line where a soil
tary figure was just discernible coming
slowly southwark.
Just so he had stood five years ago
today and watched a figure Strikingly
similar to this vending it's way toward
the North, while beside him his plead
ing wife had begged that he recall the
boy. But a stubborn something within
gave assurance that he was in the
the boyish figure grew smaller and
smaller ia the hazy distance and the
woman went inside and the cold North
wind chilled every tender impulse Of
the heart.
The traveller had reached the fence
now and his gray-blue eyes looked into
the faded brown ones before him, and
in wordless greeting he held out his
hand, but the older man was again
tracing the pattern on the gatepost
and did not see it. Imply it fell to
| the prodigal's side.
At length he ventured to say: ''To-
morrow is Christmas day."
EYES," responded the other, bitterly,
''and didn't think" with a glance to-
ward the curtained window, Il didn't
think she could last to see Christmas"
The prodigal started and grew
deathly white.
''Is my-is someone so very low?' he
gasped.
eyes, someone" replied the other,
tremblingly, sis very low; mother
who had son for whom she worked
and prayed and lived for twenty years
and then" his voice broke then for.
getful of her love and the heartache
he was leaving he went away, and fol
five long years that mother hoped anc
hungered for his homecoming all III
vain.'
The prodigal stretched out his
hands appealingly. 'What If he re
turned today and on his knees begged
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
VALUE OF GOOD ROADS

He said: "The value of our farms
are very largely affected by the condi-
ton of the roads leading by them but
we will never get good roads by kick
ing to those who have charge of the
work We should help and encourage
them to do good work and if they do
not turn them out and put someone
else in their places. We should stick
to the pay as you go plan and insist
that we get dollars worth of road
for every dollar expended"
Anent the temperance question, he
said, "There is not much use Of ask
ing for further legislation until we en-
force the laws we have, because we
have no guarantee that better laws
will be enforced"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
Problem for Butcher.

In market the other day little girl
was watching the butcher as he
weighed each customers order and
stated the price. She herself got on
a large scale and asked if I would
weigh her. When told her her weight
she turned to the butcher and said
Il weigh thirty-two pounds. Will you
please tell me how much I cost?"-
Exchange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
Near PASSENGER Station C.. L. & E. L. EUTCHINS B
Olond Fuller is working at Joseph

Olond Fuller is working at Joseph
Clark's.
George Shepard is quite ill at this
writing.
Gerald Smith has returned from a
visit in Rochester.
Arthur French is working for his
uncle Elmer Shepard.
M. L. Hutchins has sold his farm to
parties from Canada.
John Lumsden is getting out timber
for an addition to his barn.
Arthur Jameson of Lyndon, visit
ed his brother in-law, Ernest Marshall
recently.
Fred Fuller is working for Elmer
Shepard saving pulp wood with his
gasoline engine.
Mrs Lillian Blodgett is making her
home for the present with Mrs. Geor-
gianna Garfield.
Frank Hutchins and Oscar Patch
who are attending Lyndon Institute,
we're home over Sunday.
Mrs. Fannie Magoon and daughter,
VINO nave Deen visiting at Mrs. Full
ler's, have gone to North Sandwich,
N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Alden McEwen were
pleasantly surprised Wednesday even
ing, when quite a party gathered at
their home for social time and all
extended them a hearty welcome to
the little town. Mr.. McEwen's people
have moved to the Chas. Sternberg
farm recently.
| SHEFFIELD
Mrs. Fred Day visited in ST. Johns
bury last week.
There will be Christmas tree
Saturday night at the town hall.
Mary Blake of Newport has been
visiting her parents the past week.
The case of Hiram Drown was de-
cided in his favor at the county court
recently.
Louis Sheldon, youngest child of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Sheldon, is
quite sick with bronchial pneumonia.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

The dismantling Of the old grist
mill at East St. Johnsbury marks the
removal of a time honored landmark.
This mill dates back to the early
days Of ST. Johnsbury, being first
built about 1900 by man named
Cheney. The first miller was named
Fowler, and he lived in log house
by the mill.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
December the 24th
By SADIE B. ATKINS


I WAS the morning before
Christmas, clear and cold,
and the feel of the winter
Holidays was in the air. In
side the barbed wire fence
which inclOsed the first dwell
ing on the outskirts of the lit
the town a man was standing,
now tracing with rough wealth
er-beaten finger imaginary
lines on the gatepost, then
turned with keen anxiety to.
ward fhe closely curtained
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20

Manville Grant is working in Crafts
bury.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20

Mrs. W. B. Melcher is visiting in
Medfeld, Mass.
Mrs. M. M. Coe is spending two
weeks in Boston.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
PROBATE COURTS

Special sessions of the Probate Court will
be held at the office of T. W. BALDWIN, in
BARTON. on the second and fourth Fridays
of: each month in the afternoon; and at the
office of COLBY STODDARD, in ORLEANS,i in
the afternoon of the third Friday of each
month. Parties desiring to transact Probate
business at Barton or Orleans should notify
the Judge in advance, that he may take the
necessary papers.
The Probate office at NEWPORT will be
open every day, except Sundays and holt
days; but those coming from distance, as
far as possible should make special appoint
ments with the Court in advance.
RUFUS w. SPEAR. JUDGE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20

Christmas Island.
Christmas island, in the Pacific ocean.
is so named because Captain Cook
landed there Christmas day, 1777
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-20
JACOB SOLOMON.

Jacob Solomon, who has been so
seriously ill with heart trouble for
several weeks, passed quietly away
Tuesday afternoon of last week. He
was the son of Robert and Rebekah
Solomon and was born in West Burke
46 years ago. He attended the pub
lie schools of his native town, and la
ter was a student at ST. Johnsbury
academy.
After the death of his father, which
occurred about 20 years ago, he took
charge of the general store here,
which business he has carried on
most successfully ever since. :. Six
years ago he married Miss Effie
Mountain of Hartford, Conn.,, who has
made him a most faithful and loving
wife. Mr.. Solomon was keen, far
seeing man of affairs and was we'll
known in business circles throughout
this section. He was a good citizen,
| a kind neighbor and friend, and de-
voted husband. Beside his wife he
leaves two sisters, Mrs. Julia Wyzan-
ski of Brookline, Mass, and Mrs.
Rose Kugleman of Woodsville, N. H.,
and many other relatives.
The funeral was held Friday after
noon at his late residence. DR..
| CLdTIoS Ie1Scner OIL boston cOnQucJ-
ed the service, and Rev. G. w. Doug
lass of this place was his assistant.
Beside the floral offerings from the
immediate family there were those
sent by the merchants of West Burke,
the I. 0. o. F., of which the deceased
was "a member, the Woman's club,
the young peoples Sunday school
class of which Mrs. Solomon was a
former teacher, and many more
friends here and at a distance The
interment was in Hillside cemetery
Mrs. Solomon has the deepest SYM
pathy of a large circle of friends in
her great loss.
STANNARD
bury.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-30
PLANS HIS own Death
With Infinite PAINS
Marks Place to Stand with Chalk;
Gets Load in Heart.
CBy the International News Service.

CBy the International News Servfce-D
New York, Nov. @9.-With as much care
as IL he had been in his right mind, An
drew H. Duryea strapped a loaded shot
gun to the rear of his fathers automo-
bile
Presently he had it secured firmly in
such a way that the barrel pointed over
the shoe of the left rear wheel at a con-
venient angle to shoot a man in the
heart.
No one saw him as he pottered away
at his complicated task in the garage on
the estate OF his father. Horace G. Dur
yea, at Glen Head. Long Island, this aft
ernoon.
II was the first time he had been left
unguarded since he was taken home
from a sanitarium two months previous
ly.
To the trigger of the gun he tied one
end of a long piece of string. passed the
other end round a spoke of the right rear
wheel OF the car and brought il taut to
the left side. where he intended to stand.
EIecting to stand about four feet from
the muzzle of the gun, he took the
trouble to mark the exact place for his
feet with a piece of chalk.
And then he stood upright and pulled
the string.
His plan worked perfectly. The charge
entered his heart and he dropped dead
The Washington herald., 1916-11-30
"RED HEADED SINNER"
Wins DECREE FOR Wife
Her Sisters Help Along by Telling Of
Hubby's Loving" Habits.
D~,i,I 10 rbe Wa.hingtou HenId.

Special TO The Washington Herah-
New York, Nov. 9.-Testifying before
Vice Chancellor Lewis in the Jersey City
Chancery Chambers IN her suit for di-
vorce, Mrs. Susan Soman, of Bergen
field, declared that her husband, Thomas
Soman, an electrician in the employ Of
the du Pont Powder Company. at Has
kell called her "a red headed sinner and
locked her and their 5-year-old son.
Thomas, jr., out of their home. The court
will advise that a decree be granted her.
In July lsl2 Mrs. Soman testified. in
answering her counsel, Edward Hollan-
der. that she went to see her mother in
BergenfieId. Upon her return home in
Eillsdale. she said. she found her hus-
band had locked her and the child out.
They were sheltered by a neighbor.
Thereafter. she said, her husband refused
to allow her in.
After the alleged desertion Mrs. Eliza
beth Westervelt, a sister Of Mrs Soman.
testified that Soman called on her with a
box of candy and attempted to make love
to her. He called many times afterward.
she said. and hugged and kissed her
against her will. She also said that So
man asked her to go to Coney Island
with him. but that she chased him from
the house.
Miss Tillie Oser. another sister of the
petitioner, also declared that Soman tried
TO make love to her. She said that he
kissed her on one occasion and she there
upon slapped him.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-30
BEATS UP HIS KEEPER
TO GET ONE JOY-RIDE
Escaped Patient. After Auto Trip. Tele-
phones His Whereabouts.
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special 70 The Washington Herald.
Greenwich, Conn, Nov. 29.-After beat
ing a keeper over the head with a piece
OF iron bedstead to force him to unlock
the handouts which held him, a man
believed to be Max w. Phelps, a young
college graduate. escaped early this
morning from DR.. Wiley's sanatorium
here. Then. following a. wild automobile
ride to New York, he called up the sana-
torium and laughingly announced he was
ready to return. He was taken back to
the sanatorium by an officer of the instf-
tuition and a friend who were sent to
meet him.
Shortly after 4 o'clock this morning the
police of Greenwich were notified of the
mans escape and It was reported to
Chief Talbot that he was In a dangerous
condition. He had been handcuffed to a
bed, 1t was stated, but had smashed the
bed and with a section of iron bar hang
ing from the cuffs had struck the keeper
until he released him. Still armed with
the iron bar he left the place. Near the
Greenwich railroad station he hired an
automobile and told the driver to head
for New York.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-30
WHOLESALE AIR RAIDS
ON ENGLAND FEARED
London Newspaper Predicts Beginning
of New "Fnghtfulness."
,By the International News Service,

IBy the International News Serviceo D
London. Nov. &.-''The time is not far
distant when enemy aeroplanes may
come in thousands" said the Daily Mail
today in discussing the latest air raids
over England. The attack by q solitary
German aeroplane yesterday may be the
prelude to a new form of air warfare,
the Daily Mail thinks. 1t is believed
here that the German war office may
send out individual raiders in great num-
bers so as to make attacks upon the air
craft more difficult.
Sixty German air sailors are thought to
have perished in the destruction of two
Zeppelins by British airmen yesterday.
The destroyed airships were said to be
of the biggest and newest type, carry
ing crews Of from twenty-five to thirty
men each.
The report from Dunkirk. France, that
a German aeroplane had been brought
down and that 1t carried a big scale map
of London. has given rise to a belief in
some quarters that the machine may
have been the solitary raider which
dropped six bombs on London yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-30
VILLA VICTORIOUS
War Department Hears of Tri-
umphs by Bandit Leader.

The siege Of Chihuahua City ended
during the afternoon of last Monday, ac-
cording to cenfidential reports received at
the War Department yesterday The in
formation was said to have been
obtained unofhcially from both Mexican
and American sources and was accepted
as being accurate.
The Carranza defenders Of the besieged
city at the end OF a nine-day onslaught
were forced to evacuate in great dis
order. Gen. Jacinto Trevino, the Chihua-
hau commander, with mere remnant of
his original force, and no supplies, Is
said to have retreated into the desert
waste to the northeast, in the direction
of Ojinaga-
Another section of the Constitution
alist army 10 said to have been driven
to the south of the northern capital.
These troops are without leadership
and are expected TO Join the rebel
forces II for no other purpose than to
avoid starvation. villa, with his ban
dit army. is in complete control of the
city.
The victory not only gives the ban
dit chieftain possession Of the largest
and richest city in Northern Mexico,
but places him in absolute control OF
the Mexican Central and Northwestern
railroads, as well as the telegraph
lines as far south as Torreo,s The
mining district from which he lfu be
enabled TO le = tribute ~ the present
advantage is maintained. has been one
of the chief sources from which Car
rama has drawn revenue for nearly
two years.
The military district which Villa will
be in a position to dominate from Chi
huahua City will include all OF the state
Of Chihuahua, northwestern Coahulia
and northern Durango.
Much of the information received al
the War Department concerning Villas
recent successes is said to have come
from Gen. Pershing's headquarters al
Casas Grandes. Eight months ago Gen
Pershing was sent into Mexico with q
force OF 1900 men for the avowed pur-
pose of catching Villa and scattering his
band