Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-09-19
VERMONT NOTES

Ethel DeBoer Field of Montpelier,
through her ounsel, John w. Gordon,
in county court at Montpelier has pc
ititioned for an increase in alimony.
Mrs. Field during the life of her IA
Their received $1,000 a year alimony
from E. D. Field and $1,000 a year as
a gift from her father. Since her
fathers death she finds that $1,000 a
year is insufficient for her support.
F. C. Royce, who lives in the town
of Roxbury, is raising his own coffee
this year, as he has for some previous
years. The coffee stalks are "a inch
es in height, one stalk has 26 pods on
it and another 80. The pods have the
appearance of pea pods except that
they grow up the stalk. At maturi-
ty, about the middle af September,
the pods turn black, after that the
beans are removed and ground as
needed. Mr.. Royce will have about
100 pounds.
The Vermont Baptist anniversaries
and the 93d annual meeting of the
! Vermont Baptist state convention will
be held at the First Baptist church in
Richford, beginning Monday, Septem-
Der "a, and will continue through
Wednesday. 1t has been announced
in connection with the meeting that in
order to avoid danger and so that
those who attend may have no fears
regarding the spread Of poliomyelitis
no children under Is years old will be
permitted to attend any Of the meet
ings.
| Governor Graham has sent out
letter to every board of selectmen in
Vermont and to the mayors OF the
cities asking them to cooperate in
i sending delegates to the conference
to be held in Rutland Oct. As, of the
| New England section of the National
Association for the Prevention of Tu-
| berculosis. The conference includes
some of the most renowned experts in
this line in the country. The purpose
Of the conference is to discuss mat
ters Of special interest to the New
England states, all of which will be
represented.
''The apple crop in Vermont will
scarcely be one-fourth of a normal
harvest" says Mr.. Holmes of Char
lotte, the Well-known apple grower.
Apples are being bought on the trees
today by New York and Boston bro
kers for So to 1925 a barrel for all
grades. The price at picking is like
ly to be $3.50 to SIS. The government
reports sent out a few months ago
predicted an 80 per cent apple crop In
the United States Today's forecast
is barely 20. Trees blossomed heavi-
ly, but the cold, backward spring
served to blight great number Of
the blooms, and later the small apples
fell freely.
The situation in Vermont as re-
CARDS coal and other kinds of fuel is
so serious that the Vermont coal COM
mittee, appointed by Governor Ora
ham and composed of Hugh J. M
Jones of Montpelier, F. H. Brooks of
ST. Johnsbury and Newman K. Chat
fee of Rutland, are calling on the re-
tail coal dealers of Vermont for exact
information regarding the amount of
coal now on hand that the deficiency
which exists between that amount
and the reasonable demand that must
be supplied if suffering this winter is
dealers hove pledged their support to
the Vermont cOmmitte.
Vermont Camp Library week which
has been appointed by the National
War Council for the week of Sept "a,
and the State Library association and
the Free Public Library commission
will hold their annual joint meeting
at Rutland on Thursday and Friday,
Sept. 20, J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., of |
the National War Council, and A. A
Protzman, released from the Red |
Cross service to direct this campaign,
will speak. The governor of Yer
mont has expressed his intention Of |
being present. 1t is expected that !
the q. S. army will be represented,
also the French army in the person of |
one of the officers of the aviation
school at Cambridge.
Plans are being rapidly perfected
for the conduct of a nationwide food
campaign, comparable in
with and transcending in
the Red Cross drive of
few months ago. One week in Octo-
Der will be designated by Herbert
Hoover, federal food administrator,
during which an effort will be made
all over the country to secure the sig
nature of every housewife and head
of a family to a card pledging the
signer to avoid waste of foodstuffs
and to carry out the directions and
advice of the food administrator Gin
my home, SO far as my circumstances
permit" The steps which have been
taken to organize Vermont for the
are briefly these: Food
Hoover has appointed
an executive committee of which Gov.
Horace F. Graham is chairman with
these additional members, Mrs. John
E. Weeks Of Middlebury, chairman of
the Vermont division, Woman's coun-
I'll of national defense, F. E.. D.. Lang
ey, publisher of the Barre Times, F.
FL. Brooks of ST. Johnsbury and JUS
ice George M Powers of the SUI
oreme court of Vermont.
Denies Red Cross Is Selling Any
Articles.