Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-04-03
VERMONT NOTES

There is a prospect that the Ster-
lingCox Shoe company of Portland,
Me-, may build factory at Enosburg
Falls.
Charles Baldwin Of Readsboro has
received a brief statement from the
war department announcing the death
of his son, Private Glen Baldwin, U.
S. A., in France, who was "killed In
action" He was Is years of age.
Seeking $4,000 damages, Richard
Mandigo of Shrewsbury has brought
suit in Rutland county court against
Miss Adah Walker of Clarendon, al
leging the loss of services of his wife
due to injuries in an auto accident
when she was run down by the de-
PENDANTS auto in Rutland last sum-
mer.
The dates FOR the department en-
campment of he Grand Army of the
Republic of Vermont, the department
convc., on Of the WOlran's Relief
Corps, the Sons OF Veterans, etc,
have been set for April Is and 10, but
owing to the illness of Department
Commander c. T. S. Pierce Of Yer
for the meeting has been somewhat
delayed.
Unless conditions of the country
materially change at once it has been
decided by the executive committee of
the state fair not to hold any fair this
this year. War conditions and the
fact that the railroads could not ar
range for excursions were the rea-
sons. Efforts Of the group Of men in
Hartford to have horse racing if the
f9 GOnc NOT ooo11r yUoc rof11co6 fOY,
consistency.
Ex-Gov. Chas. W. Gates is plan
ming for big crop planting at his
farm in Franklin this season, and
even the shortage of help does not
discomfort him. Some of his bean crop
is still in the ground, where he was
not able to harvest it last fall. School
boys assisted materially in the har-
vesting and when his foreman left
Mr.. Gates put his 19-year-old son,
Winslow Gates, in his place. The
young man has managed things even
more smoothly than the foreman.
Aroused over the alleged pro-Ger-
man sentiments of certain members
of Charles o. Wilder's family of Viii
nnington, $50 i1ate citizens forced
Mr.. Wilder to salute the stars and
sun DSIOiC TIC SOuiO t1ILSI HIS
home one night last week. The al
legged pro-German sympathy of the
Wilder family was brought to a eli
max Friday when principal Gorham
Of the Wilmington high school gave
Darwin Wilder ten days in which to
salute the flag or be expelled from
school. From the time that the
United States entered the war Dar-
win has persistently refused to hon
or the stars and stripes and his gen
eral attitude was so un-American that
Principal GoTham would stand it no
longer.
The banner awarded by the Yer
mont Association for the Prevention
Of Tuberculosis to thecity or town of
over 5000 population selling the
highest number Of Red Cross seals
per capita, will be awarded this year
to Bennington, which sold ga seals
the banner a year ago is a close sec
ond, having sold 5.3 seals per capita.
For the towns and cities of less than
5000 population in Class B, Yer
gennes wins the banner again by sell
ing 6 seals per capita. Ali of these
towns sold more seals last year than
the year before. Returns from prac-
tically all the Red Cross seals agents
show that 726,914 Christmas seals
were sold in Vermont in 1917, which
is 117,7o8 more than the record of
1916 and will net the association more
than $4,000.