Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-23
SingleIC S Cents.
HOW DRASTIC CLOS
ING ORDER HIT US.
Industries in County and State Af-
fected and Stores, Offices, Etc,
Closing Mondays as Ordered.

U. S. Fuel Administrator Garfield's
order to close manufacturing plants
from Friday last until and including
tuesday, and closing stores and Of
fees and manufacturing plants on
Monday and each Monday thereafter
until and including Monday, March
10Th, came to the business interests
of Orleans county and Vermont like
a thunder bolt out of a clear sky, in
! the morning papers of Thursday. AS
! the papers do not reach this territory
until noon and some parts of the
county until evening, and the next
morning even, there was no time to
prepare. Nevertheless most of the
| plants in the county closed Friday
morning.
Later rulings from State Fuel Ad-
ministrator Jones of Montpelier ex-
empted many plants as they burn
refuse of their own making or wood
that is not marketable.
| Some of our larger plants which
come under this class which received
permits to reopen or which did not
close at all are: The Parker Young
mills at Orleans employing more than
200 men, the Frost Veneer Seating
company OF Newport, employing
about 175 men and the Blair Veneer
company of North Troy, employing
about l25 men. Other concerns run
ming on waste are Prouty & Miller
and the Orleans Bobbin company both
of Newport. The two concerns en-
! ploy between 40 and so men.
The largest number of hands ac-
tually thrown out of employment was
in the Peerless factory in Barton
where about IS people were idle five
days and will be Ior the next ten
Mondays. Butterfeld & Company at
Derby Line in closing their factory
on this side of the line threw some so
| men out OF employment but some
were put into the plant on the Cana
dian side. B. +. Moore q Company
of Newport closed affecting some so
hands. Some idle hands in Newport
received work IN the railroad yards
removing snow.
In the three largest concerns men,
toned above as being obliged to close
not quite 200 hands were thrown out
Of employment in the county but
many other places where fewer men
were employed were closed and the
! total number who lost five days and
will lose the next ten Mondays prob
ably number 800 or more. They in
| clude the Monarch Evaporator COM
pany and the National Wrapping Ma
chine company both of Newport, the
granite sheds and the J. W. Murllland
company, foundry and machine shop
in Barton, the printing offices of the
county so far as general job printing
is concerned, and many other busi-
ness places.
But in its large industries Orleans
county is particularly fortunate that
they burn waste wood products.
These large concerns employ approx
imately 500 hands.
Of course the stores of all the
towns closed Monday and will close
each Monday until and including
March 25, except that groceries and
foods may be sold until noon. So
comprehensive is the order that only
strictly food materials can be sold.
Tobacco, cigars, oil, etc.. are prohlb-
! tied and people should bear this In
mind that they may not embaraSs
! themselves or the merchants by call
ing for prohibited things on Monday.
! Penalties for violation of the order
are heavy and local fuel administra-
tors have general orders to enforce
the Garfield rulings and the public,
merchants, and everyone In general
should bear this in mind.
| State Fuel Administrator Jones
urges that the enforced Monday holi-
| days for the coming weeks be utilized
| for wood cutting or helping on the
| farms where labor is so badly need
ed. Perhaps farmers will be able to
secure some aid for sugaring by the
closing order.
Later-Since the above was writ
ten, State Fuel Administrator Jones
has been receiving rulings, by wire,
which are more or less conflicting.
Some of the rulings are
Pool rooms and other places OF
amusement may keep open Mondays
but must close Tuesdays.
Candy not to be considered as food.
"Authorize any power necessary
for loading and unloading cars"
SCHOOLS and laundries not included
in order of January IT."
"Present order is designed to- re-
strict the use of all kinds of fuel on
fuel in whatever form burned"
Mr.. Jones wired Washington re-
garding this order and got an an
swer:
Manufacturers using shavings for
heat for plant may run sufficiently to
produce enough shavings for heating
plant to prevent freezing"
On account of the foregoing, Mr..
Jones rules that any manufacturing
plant using waste for fuel must shut
down unless special permission is OBJ
tanned
An order allowing food stores to
remain open all day Monday, Jan. 21,
was received too late to be given cir
culation, and it is not known whether
this means the following Mondays or
not