Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-05-31
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Vermont Real Estate Good Property

In Glover there has just been con-
Guided a $4,000 farm deal and in
Swanton the real estate transfers thus
far in May aggregate $65, ZOO. There
are two concrete evidences that real
estate is far from being dead property.
In fact, proofs are constantly being
multiplied that Vermont real estate is
about as desirable an asset as anyone
can Burlington News.
Vermonters in the Navy.
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, who is
scheduled to become commander-in-
chief of the Atlantic squadron some
time in June is a native of Vermont
and his record in the past warrants the
belief that he will be worthy success
sor of those other two famous Vermont
admirals, George Dewey, and Charles
E. Clark. 1t is of more than passing
interest that the little state of Yer
mont should furnish three such distin-
guished officers to the American navy
in so brief term of transforming
ton Banner.
Editors Debt to Correspondents.
The editor thinks am poor CORE
spondent, but ! tell you it is pretty
hard work to get items in a town
where most of us are so good we never
do any thing bad and some of us so
bad we never do anything good, and
some of US so lazy we never do any
thing at all and all of us so slow we
ever do anything soon enough to get it
in the paper. go down to the store
regular but the news | get there is not
always rintable.-Perkinsvll Core
spondent in Woodstock Standard.
There spoke an honest man. and the
situation in Perkinsville is not greatly
different from perhaps 200 other towns
in Vermont, yet there is not news
paper, weekly or daily, that can deny
a deep and undying debt to the country
correspondent. He (although it is
oftener she) very seldom gets any
compensation for the faithful weekly
letters to the local paper beyond free
volume of printed news from hamIets
or "corners" like Perkinsville would
astonish the man who took the trouble
to measure it up for year. Speaking
professionally. the PerkinsvilIe CORE
spondent is better fixed" for news
sources than many others. He has
two churches, an R. F. D. carrier, a
hotel, an insurance agent, four little
manufacturing plants, three merchants,
nurse, and horse doctor. to say
nothing of the postmaster, to depend
on for news. Turn a correspondent like
A. N. Chandler of Chester, George L..
Smith of Orwell, Mrs. W. w. Maran-
, vile of Wallingford, or the late Achsa
4 Riggs of Proctorsville loose in Perkins
Vile, with a farmers telephone line
and the run of the sources above, and
the Herald would pretty nearly guar
hol
a weekly from Perkinsville. Getting
|, news in a country town is knack, ar
Il instinct, and most WON IN have the
t knack, give them time and llttl e In
e centive. A few men become good cor.
+. respondents, but the Herald would say
:, that where you find one good country
. correspondent in man you find two
: women better. But they're all good
mostly excellent, faithful to theil
county and their home paper, and We
couldn't run a paper without them tel
n days Rutland Herald.
Tribune "Charges" Analysed.
r The alleged offenses of former Gov
:. Allen M. Fletcher, recouuted at som'
= ength by the Ludlow Tribune and APP
lie pearing elsewhere on this page, consti
s. tute quite serious document. The!
n are in effect challenge to his enemie
to make his administration an ISSUE
and thus force him into a public de
it Tense of them. Apparently Mr.
!. Fletcher has no objection to thi
course. In fact, he seems to welcom
the opportunity. yet. if he has SO seri
IL ously offended against the St. Alban
lie Messenger, for example. he has ais
d offended against the people of Vernon
and ought to be brought to account.
'. Examining the offenses in some de
n tail. The Herald is forced to agre
20 with the Tribune in respect to his rail
&c road policies. Railroad taxation as i
- exists today is inequitable. 1t take
10 the railroad more heavily than othe
n property and in more than one case tn
1T state tax is larger than the net earn
Is ings. In the same manner the Heral,
believes his telephone investigation
was ill-advised and has served no use
full public end. In two respects, there
:. fore, this paper is forced to agree wit
=, the Tribune in it's ironical charge
10 against Mr.. Fletcher.
70 In other respects, "the very hea
J. and front of" Mr.Fletcher's "offenses
y is not perhaps so obvious. It is certain
- that he was the kind of governor Yer
D. mont editors and Vermont orators ba
rs been preaching about for years. H
IF wore no mans collar. He took order
from no boss. He conducted his offic
i for the benefit of Vermont, so far as h
r saw his duty and had the audacity t
&c tell Vermont legislature to 60 HON
re- after it had fooled away so much tim
49, that it's further sitting threatened
"a public scandal
s Yes, he made enemies Perhaps n
lie man in public life ever had choicer O
or more distinguished collection, yet, a
the fulminations of those enemies gro,
y more dim, can any man truthful
or point to single act of Mr.. Fletcher
nd administration which in the slightes
70 degree threatened the interests of tn
- taxpayer?
n On the contrary. is it not true tina
c. the plain people, outside of few pol