Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-07-05
Do You Know That?

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It's worry, not work, which shortens
life?
A cold bath every morning is the
best complexion remedy?
Poor health is expensive?
The y. S. Public Health Service has
reduced malaria 60 per cent in some
localities?
The death rate from typhoid fever in
the United States has been cut in half
since 1900?
Pneumonia kills over 10000 Ameri.
cans each year?
Flyless town has few funerals?
The we'll that drains the cesspool is
the cup of death?-United States Pub
lie Health Service.
''Must Use His Bean on Farm.
Eight years ago a young working
man of the Three Villages gave up his
job and with very few hundred dol
lars he had laid up, went to Derby and
bought farm many said, "You have
made mistake" etc., but his report
seems to disprove the advice and
prophecy of friends. Today he owns
his farm and more than three times
the stock he purchased at first; the
farm will sell most any week for more
than double the price paid, and he has
more money in the bank than when he
made the change eight years ago. The
other day be said, II owe no man a
dollar and several owe me- This is
not an unusual success story; young
men are doing this very thing all over
Vermont and the Eastern Townships.
One of the secrets of the success of
this particular man. is that he was
wise enough not to buy a farm too
large for himself and his growing boys
to work and work well. He made
another significant observation. "To
make farming pay, fellow must use
his bean. "-Stanstead Journal.
Revolution Wrought by Automobiles.
The gathering of the business men
associations of the four counties, Rut-
land, Windham, Bennington and Wind
| sor, at Weston last week was eloquent
of the revolution in rural matters
brought about by the automobile.
Upon the authority of those present at
one time during the meeting on the
village green there were counted ITO
automobiles, with not a single horse
drawn vehicle to be seen. Nothing
could illustrate more forcibly the
factor the motor car has played in
revolutionizing country life than this
incident. AS Governor Gates, who
attended the meeting, put it: cit is
marvellous to note the transformation
in short ten years wrought by the
automobile in rural life. l look for
the time, and that very soon, when
there will be more automobiles in Yer
mont in proportion to population than
in any other state. Only two or three
states now have a larger number, of
them, per capita, and their exc SIS, is
only by a very small margin. In
round numbers there is one automobile
to every 70 persons in Vermont.
And the great influence automobiles
have upon the road question is impress
slve Everyone who owns a machine
or who travels in one becomes an advo.
cate of better roads The pronounced
Improvement Of the highways of Yer
mont is due in no small measure to the
development of motor cars"
Life in the rural districts is no long
er isolation. With the multiplication
of automobiles, telephones, rural free
de livery mail routes, the OUTLYING dis
tflcts are brought into as close COM
munlon with the world as are the
centers of population. One Incidental
result of this development has been,
ana Will IN increasing measure in the
future be, the transformation of
farming from means of livelihood to
business proposition, just as much as
manufacturing or merchandising Rut-
land News.