Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-12-18

A Telephone Question.


Who would ever think Of charging
toll of ten cents for a telephone
call between st. Johnsbury and Bar
net or Danville, or Lyndonville, or
Concord, if there was any competition
in the local field ?-St. Johnsbury Re-
publican.
Democrats in the Legislature.
Five counties in the state, Addi-
son, Grand Isle, Orleans, Windham,
cratic member in the state legisla-
ture. Essex county sends six Demo-
Gratis out of total of Is members of
the house of representatives, the
largest Democratic representation of
any county. Aside from party or
ganization Democratic politics will
not be felt in the legislature as DEM
ocratic members always vote for
what they want Independent Of party
lines.-Brattleboro Reformer.
An Open Winter.
The Mortified News has been
prognosticating, and assures us that
we are to have an open winter.
Woodchucks stayed out later than
was ever known before, hornets built
their nests low, which is a never fail
ing sign, and Sheriff Smiths cousin
says there was second crop of frogs
this last season, which probably set
ties it, beyond doubt, and we hope
it does. If Mr.. Shaw of the weather
observatory at Mortified on the
Dog" gets to handing out those daily
reports of 40 below zero, we shall
feel that he is wrong.-Brattlebor
Reformer.
Newport's Telephone Thoughts.
The new ruling of the New En-
gland Telephone company whereby
tolls are charged for use of the lines
outside ones own town will not set
well with the public as whole. Pay
ing a monthly rental on the phone
and then paying extra for using it.,
is like buying a ticket into show
and then paying extra for seeing it..
Raising the rental, everything con-
sidered, might be expected; but put
ting a toll on top of it is adding an
unnecessary link. A rental should
cover the county. It is the county
most of us want-not the town. The
New England Telephone company
does not want to get back into it's old
rut.-Newport Express and STAN
dard.
Vermont Supremest in Granite.
This is an item worth carrying in
mind: Vermont produced approx
mately two-fifths of the granite used
in the United States during the year
1917. Moreover, Vermont was one of
the three larger granite-producing
states which increased the value of
their output in that year over the
year 1916, in spite of adverse cir
cumstances incident to the war. Yer
mont's increase was 81 per cent. Of
course, the Barre granite industry
was entirely responsible for this adj
vance, inasmuch as the other gran
tie centers of the state have been
more or less inactive. The table of
figures as prepared by the u. S. geo.
logical survey and just published
give Vermont the impressive total of
$4,000, 500 worth of granite with Min
nesota as the nearest competitor with
a total of $8O3,37O. That is why
Barre comes rightly by it's title of the
monumental granite center of the
world.-Barre Times.
Why Advertised Stores Succeed.
The problem of any proposition
seeking to win favor of the public, is
to attract attention, to get talked
about. No public entertainment
could get attention simply by passing
word about it from mouth to mouth
That is why people getting up any
kind of public assembly always rush
to the newspapers the first thing.
It is even more difficult for man
to get his business talked about if he
refuses to use newspaper space. Nc
one is interested to help him secure
his publicity.
Few people will take pains to tel
others how good stuff he may carry
He may have ever SO good show
window, but people do not stop much
to look into show windows nowadays
| But people will stop to read the
contents of a newspaper because they
pick it up in their own homes at theil
| convenience Scores of people will
notice an advertisement where one
would stop to look at store window
White River Junction Landmark.