Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-12-05
VERMONT NOTES

The Vermont State Checker asso-
citation will hold it's annual gathering
! in Barre DECEMBER 26. After the
business meeting play will begin.
Any resident may join this associa-
ton. w. c. Hoag of Burlington is
present state champion.
Secretary of State Fred G. Fleet
wood says the automobile number
plates for 1913 have arrived, the
colors being green and gold. The
colors of the 1917 plates were blue
and white. Secretary Fleetwood or
dered $4,000 plates.
The Crome Tanning company of
Bethel is engaged in a big war con-
tract to furnish cream white unfinish-
ed leather to be used in the manufac-
ture of shoes and leggins for trench
wear. The company also has a large
order for russet leather.
The Washington county license
commissioners have revoked the Ii
quor license held by J. Edward Muir
ply of Barre. Murphy was found
guilty by the board of selling intoxi-
eating liquor by the bottle to a Nor
wich university student contrary to
the law. He conducted a irstclass
license place.
Rev. Frank A. StockweIl of Nor
risville has accepted q position at
Camp Devens, Aver, Mass, to do
work for the Young Mems Christian
association. Sunday he asked his
parish to grant him q leave of alb
sence. Mr. StockWell accepted a call
to the Universalist church in Norris
vile about a year ago.
"Vermont leads all the New En-
gland states in Red Cross member
ship" said Judge C. Fl. Darling,
chairman Of the state committee for
new membership, in discussing the
Il per cent Of the population already
ton, but we've got to get seven per
cent more. Our quota is p per cent"
Gen. Lee S. TiLotson has received
a telegram from the provost general
asking for wide publicity for the
benefit Of registrants in the draft,
the message calling attention Of reg
istrants TO the fact that they must
give their local exemption board their
latest addresses and that this must
be done by Dec. Is or they may for
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discharge.
Vermont is being organized to
raise money for Armenian and Gyri-
an relief. ''Ten cents a day will save
life-hOw many lives viii you
save?" is the slogan of the national
committee which is attempting TO
raise @ part Of the $5,O00,00O a
month that is needed to keep from
starvation 100000 souls in Western
Europe who constitute the remnant
of a Christian race.
Frank H. Brooks of St. Johnsbury
presidertof the Vermont Anti-Saloon
League, will go with the party of 20
Vermonters to Washington to attend
the national convention of the Anti
Saloon League, to be neId from Dec.
10 to IA. The Vermonters will join
the rest of the New England contin-
gent December 9 at New York and
go by special train to Washington.
The submission to Congress of the
constitutional amendment for nation
al prohibition will be made at that
time it is expected.
The state treasurer of Vermont
will pay $40 per month to all volun-
teers in all branches of service, en-
listed in the United States army and
navy. The period for which such
state pay shall be allowed shall not
exceed one year. Men drafted under
the selective service law approved on
May IS, 1917, are not eligible to state
pay. The treasurer will not make
to volunteers until salts
factory proof is obtained that the en-
listment was voluntary and that the
applicant was a Vermonter at the
time of enlistment. Applicants to
Walter F. Scott, state treasurer,
Vermont, will be furnish
ed with forms of application as soon
as they are printed.
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