Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-12-27
VERMONT NOTES

ing an epidemic of scarlet fever.
Christmas exercises were cancelled
and schools closed. The disease is
running in a very light form
The Rhodes scholarship for Yer
mont has been awarded to Thomas
Kenneth Penniman, who graduated
from Middlebury college in 1915 and
at present is principal of the high
school at Conway, Mass.
The Leader Evaporator company
of Burlington, of which w. E. Burt
is president, has just completed
four-story addition to it's large fac
tory. This plant has been enlarged
four times in the last eight years.
The 1000th marriage license in
1916 was issued Dec. 10 by Town
Clerk L. F. Hayes of Bellows Falls.
There has been considerable interest
as to whether the number of licenses
issued this year would reach the 1000
mark and when it was announced
that this goal had been reached cen
siderable money changed hands.
A reception is to be given by Gov.
Gates to the incoming governor, Hor-
11G Il MI dnduls VII LiIC tNCIlihS VI
Jan. 3, the opening day of the gener-
daughter of the governor, will as
sist him in the receiving line. All
former governors and their wives
are to have places in the receiving
line.
The II county agricultural bureaus
report a total membership of 1884
or slightly more at the close of the
present year. That is the number at
present, and further small gains may
be made. Only two counties out of
the eleven have not gained, and the
total is the largest bona fide paid-up
membership since the bureaus were
started
A supervisor of home economies, to
have general charge of home econom-
les, the department of Vermont's high
school system, will be appointed as
soon as the right person for the place
can be found. This announcement is
made by Assistant Dean Floyd b.
jerks of the state college of agricul-
ture, Burlington, who has been di-
rector of the teaching of agriculture
in the high schools of the state since
the beginning of the academic year.
At a meeting Of the trustees of the
Vermont Soldiers hone OF Ecnllu,-
ton George p. Martin, president OF
the Spear Martin Fur company of
Burlington, which is soon to 90 out
of business, was elected superinten-
dent of the home. His wife, Eta K.
Martin, was chosen as matron. They
succeed on January | Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Harmon, who recently re-
signed after a long service. Mr.
Martin is survivor of the 10Th and
18th New Hampshire regiments of
the Civil war and a past commander
of the Grand Army Of Vermont.
1t is learned on good authority that
a large hotel is to be built at Middle
town Springs, II miles west of Rut-
land. Aston capital at New York
has become interested in the project,
and the site of the Montvert hotel,
which was dismantled a few years
ago because Of its antiquity, has been
decided upon. The new building will
represent an outlay of several hun
dred Thousand dollars. The hotel
men have had experts examine the
waters and they are pronounced equal
to the best in America and Europe
for curative properties. The medical
properties of the springs were recog-
nized more than a century ago and
formerly people from miles around
gathered there.
The Shaw Fern company has COM
pleted the seasons work in Whining
ton and closed down for the winter.
Though not generally known this
concern is the second largest in point
of volume of business in the country.
Three fern companies control the
fern business of the United States
and of these only one is larger than
the Wilmington concern. Thousands
of cases of ferns are handled by the
Shaw cnnnanv each ,rnnr a lnrn.o