Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-30

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ment of agriculture, by means of
which we are informed that Vermont
was surpassed in 1917 by only one
state in the corn yield per acre; that
thestate stood eighteenth in the oat
yield per acre; the state was exceed
] ed by single state in the rye yield
per acre; the state stood eighth in
the spring wheat yield; that it was
twelfth in barley; that it stood at the
| top in buckwheat per acre; that it
was twentieth in potato production;
that in tobacco yield it stood second;
| that only eleven states produced more
hay to the acre; that the state raised
more beans than Massachusetts, and
Indiana put together and was far
above the average and, finally, that
81 ,543 900 last year. In short, the
total value CT the eleven products
enumerated was $33,522,OOO in 1917,
as compared with $32, $4,000 for the
same crops n 1916. These figures
explain in part why Vermont farms
are bong picked up by so many peo-
pie fr~-r other states. Let the new
corners continue 20 arrive until every
vacant farm in Vermont is being op-
Grated. By 1920 Vermont will show
her heels to many more states in the
various lines of production.-Barre
Times.
Story of Bedell RetOld.
Though barking back to Civil War
days, the Boston Globe of Jan. 22,
contains a story that is of interest to
people of the valley as the subject
was we'll known here. Under a
heading, "New England Heroes Of
Land and Sea-" the following story
of H. E. Bedell is told. The Mont
tor prints it exactly as the Globe had
it, Notwithstanding some errors. The
Globe contains Captain Bedelps pic
ture and says Bedell was born in
Troy July 26, 1886, and died in New
port March Is, 1911. The story
reads:
Not all the Southern girls and
women distrusted the Northern SOL
dier during the Civil war. Some who
at first were extremely bitter, fell in
love with Federal officer or private
and pretty romance resulted. Hen
ry Edison Bedell figured in one of the
most dramatic romances of the war.
To rebel woman he undoubtedly
owed his life.
Unlike the usual love story, Bedell
did rot marry the woman, but this
fact does not detract from the ro-
her action was based on a love for
the man or on pure womanly in
stincts. Bedell never knew.
At Opequan, near Earper's Ferry,
Bedell, a lieutenant, was acting as
captain of the second company, which
was engaged in combat with the
Confederates. He was struck by
shell which shattered his left leg and
severely wounded his right hand.
More dead than alive he was carried
to a temporary hospital on the field
Of battle where the doctors found it
necessary to amputate his leg.
Net many days after the fighting
it was decided to move the sick and
wounded to Harper's Ferry, for it
seemed certain the Confederates
would attack again. Lieut.. Bedell
was so exhausted it was impossible
to move him, and when the Federals
retired he was left in the hands of
the Southerners. Bedell undoubted-
ly would have died within q short
time were it not for the fact that the
rebel woman removed him to her
home and with the tenderness that
only a woman can show took upon
herself the task Of nursing him to
health.
War had served her and the sur
rounding country roughly. She had
barely enough to eat to sustain life,
yet she cheerfully shared her means
with the sick soldier. She nursed Be-
dell with such care and attention that
he finally was able to be placed be-
hind the Union lines.