Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-30
VERMONT NOTES.

MS appllcaClOn Tor entrance TO Cne
Field Artillery officers school there
had been granted and notified to be
ready for his call about October 31st.
Arrangements for carrying on the
church work are under consideration
but have not been completed. Mr..
Metzger has notified the town clerk
of his withdrawal as the Republican
candidate for town representative, for
which he received the nomination at
the September primaries.
The examinations of the books of
the auditor of accounts has taken
new turn with he appearance of F.
S. Pratt of Bra ttleboro, working upon
them for the attorney general who
began an invcstigation Friday. FL.
C. Barber son.c weeks ago let it be
known hat he was not going to act
until l., had some foundation upon
which to WORK. lie asked Tor il
formation, which he did not get, and
then went to the Office and obtained
some himself and now Mr.. Pratt is
going over the accounts, covering
period Of three or four years.
Adjutant General Fl. T. Johnson re-
ceived from the provost marshal gen
eral a statement that 2,012 men will
be called from Vermont in the next go
days, or per cent of the number of
men that the war department expects
to call in that length Of time. Col.
Johnson sent an order to the local
boards of the state to hurry up their
and examinations, IN
which but little has been done, speak
ing of the state as whole. Some
counties have examined and are eX-
an1iring their men, but for the most
part boards will have to speed up ex-
tensively to respond to those calls,
which probably will arrive in few
days.
There is a possibility that the Howe
Scale company OF Rutland will be
compelled to cut it's working force
from one-tl1ird to one-half the num-
Der of hands employed by the concern
on October 1. Officials of the COM
pany state that this step would be
absolutely necessary unless the War
Industries board modifies it's order, of
q few days ago allowing the compan-
les manufacturing heavy scales only
one-half Of the iron for the period
beginning October / and ending April
/, 1919. that it used during the period
from January 1, 1917, to July 1,
1917. And for the next six months
they will be allowed only one-half of
the amount used from July 1, 1917, to
January 1, 1913.
The St. Johnsbury Caledonian has
received a letter from William Dud-
lev Policy, written in Japan on Aug.
26, stating that he has been appointed
staff correspondent of the American
Red Cross commission to travel with
the Czechs and allied forces into ST.
IBERIA where the troops would engage
the Germans on the eastern front. He
will also keep the outside world in
formed Of the work Of the Y. M. c.
A. in this campaign, working in con-
junction with the Associated Press
representatives at Vladivostok and
Toxic. AS war correspondent he is
now in the thick Of things, probably,
covering the campaign Of the allies
a gainst the Bolsheviki and German
forces. On conclusion Of the cam
Daign he writes that he expects to
return to Japan and resume his trip
around the world
The Wind from the Wilderness.
(From a recent issue of The Ver-
monter we are permitted to copy the
following poem by Rev J. Elliot Bow
y
pastor of the Westfeld and Troy
churches.)
dedicated to Vermont soldiers in
the American EXpeditionary FOrce.)
In No Mans Land are heaps of Stag,
Shell craters, blood-encrusted stones;
Wires hung with tattered wisps Of
rag,
And khaki-shrouded bones.
Ger No Mans Land the meteor
In crimson arc, like Sodom's rain;
From rending cloud of shrapnel
sWerves
The shattered aeroplane.
The death-fog drifts, the flame
streams veer
Across the shell-torn waste of sand.
Earth has a region far more drear,
The Teuton Fatherland.
The Fatherland is plagued with
ghosts
That blight the blessed day, nor shun
To face the accusing sun.
They gibber, mingling threat and
whine
Of Honor and of Faith, and dare
Upon their leprous clothes the sign
Of Holy Rood to wear.
From No Mans Land shall flame
Such storm as never Odin's hand
Controlled, and quell the things of
shame
That foul the Fatherland.
Vermont! Praise God that, when, at
last