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

ter the army Y. M. c.. A. work
abroad in the spring.
The auto salesroom and garage of
| w. G. BALKAN of White River juno
ton was totally destroyed by fire
Friday afternoon. Five autos and
| trucks were destroyed along with
| supplies.
The Vermont Dairymen's Associa-
ton, one of the largest organizations
of the kind in the country, will hold
it's annual meeting in Burlington on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
January 1917.
Figures obtained at the Montpelier
Central Vermont ticket office show
that the government realized $500
from the tax recently placed on m lie
age books and tickets at the Montpe-
lier office in the month of November.
Five hundred pounds of pure Yer
mont maple sugar will be sent to the
American soldiers now in France the
first of the year, the gift of the Yer
mont Maple Sugar Makers associa-
ton, through its president, IL. &.
Chaplin.
Rev. Ivan H. Benedict, pastor of
the Baptist church in Montpelier, has
resigned He has been there five
years. He is to take special train
ing for war work under the Red Tri-
angle at the Y. M. C. A. training
school in Springfield, Mass.
Two hundred converts are reported
as a result Of revival meetings held
for two weeks in Richford by Evan
gelist Franklin w. Swift, D. D. The
Baptist and Methodist churches unit
ed in the campaign, the music fur
nished by a 14-piece orchestra being
a feature of the meetings as we'll as
a large choir.
W. H. Jeffrey, secretary of chart
ties and probation, has taken over
seven children on behalf of the state
all from one family in Groton. Two
of the children are to go to the indus
trial school at Vergennes as delin-
quents while the other five go to tenn
porary homes and will be placed per-
manently a little later it is expected.
Rev. George S. Mills, for IA years
pastor Of the Second Congregational
church in Bennington has been grant
ed a six months leave of absence to
become a naval chaplain attached to
the Great Lakes naval station near
Chicago. The pastors salary will be
continued by the church, as he re-
ceives no pay for his work as chap
lain.
Present indications are that Hon.
James Hartness of Springfield prom
inent in the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers, food administra-
Jones & LamsOn Machine company,
O in lie
member of a large commission to
look after important engineering bus
mess for the government.
Friday evening witnessed the clos
ing of the fOur-day convention of the
Vermont Horticultural society, which
has been held in Howard Relief hall,
Burlington. The entire affair was
voted as most successful and benefi-
cial to each organization and individ-
uaI. The place Of the 1913 annual con-
but an invitation from st. Johnsbury
probably will be accepted.
The second consignment of saw
mills from the Lane Manufacturing
company of Montpelier has been
shipped The second five-mill ship
ment went to France and the third
one was completed few days ago. It
was sold to a firm representing the
government and is to be used in the
United States for cutting timber for
some purposes connected with the
governments needs.
President John M. Thomas of Mid
dlebury college will shoulder an axe
and lead faculty members and stu
dents to the mountains for the
Christmas vacation period to cut tim
Der and relieve the fuel shortage
President Thomas offered every man
in the institution a wood-cutting job
forest land owned by the college. He
will provide lodging by re-opening a
summer hotel on Breadloaf mountain.
With single exception the
amounts received from the 18th two
day sale Of registered Holstein-Fries-
ian cattle under auspices of the Pure
bred Livestock Sales company of
Brattleboro last week, averaged high
er than ever before. Altogether 115
head were sold under the auctioneer's
hammer for $30,170, an average of
$262.35. John F. Benjamin of Barre
amount of money paid in, paying
$5,205 for II head.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Ebert S. Brigham of ST. Adams, has
been appointed as member of the
federal milk commission for the ter
ritory supplying Boston. This COM
mission is empowered to determine
after hearings the reasonable prices
for milk to be paid by purchasers to
producers and by consumers to dis
tributors. These prices are to be
based upon the cost of production and
distribution, with a reasonable profit
added in each instance.
Floyd Denton, charged with assault
with intent to kill Mrs. Frank Wright
of Stowe, while armed with a dan
gerous weapon, has been given a
hearing before the grand jury at
Hyde Park and a true bill found. He
will be tried soon. Mrs. Wright,
whom noytor, ic o11oroI 70 howe OF