Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-09
VERMONT NOTES

The Bardwell hotel in Rutland
which burned Sunday, Dec. 80, at .
loss of $125,OO0, will be rebuilt.
The cold weather of last weel
closed the ice over Lake Champlail
on January 2, the earliest date Of
the closing in Of the lake in a cen
fury.
Following a brief illness Mrs. Mary
Field Hadley, who was 1O1 years ole
October Is, died Tuesday at her Brat
tleboro home, in which she had livec
about 80 years.
The past month of December was
the coolest December in the 81 years
that weather records have been kept
at the Mortified station, according
to the monthly meteorological sum
mary issued by w. A. Shaw.
Returns show that Vermont's old
est Red Cross member is Mrs. Mari
anne Gibson of Hyde Park, 1OE
years, and the youngest, little Miss
Elizabeth Giles Of Lyndon Center,
aged two hours when enrolled.
December, 1917, was the coolest of
any December during the "a years
that continuous weather records have
beeen kept in the Burlington govern
ment weather bureau Thirteen days
in the month saw the mercury below
the zero mark.
According to report submitted to
the executive committee of the Yer
mont Chapter, American Red Cross,
at a meeting in Burlington Friday,
the recent membership drive will re-
suit in more than 10000 new men,
bers.
Governor Graham has appointed
Frank l.. Wellman, Esq, of Guilford,
;heriff OF Windham county to succeed
). E. Mann, resigned. Mr.. Wellman
vas recommended by many promi-
TENT citizens and had the unanimous
endorsement of the Windham county
bar.
For the seventh time since he es-
tablished himself in the sawmill and
chair stock business, Franklin L.
Pierce of Putney and Brookline Fri
lay lost a mill by fire. His mill in
Brookline was destroyed and nothing
was saved. With this fire Mr.. Pierce
will quit the saw-mill business. He
is 50 years old.
Incorporation papers have been
fled with the secretary OF state by
the Addison County Farmers Coop
erative Exchange inc, with capital
stock of $4,000, and principal office at
ly chartered with the object of taking
advantage of the cooperative buying
of fertilizers and feeds.
Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts of Brandon
in her Tooth year, who recently sent
to President Wilson a pair of red
white and blue socks, knit by her own
hands, is the proud recipient of per-
sonal letter, written by President
Wilson in which he thanks her very
much and promises that the socks
shall be worn by him.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president of
the National City bank of New York
and chairman of the National War
Savings committee, and John F. Har-
ris, federal director of the War Saw
ings committee, will be the principal
speakers at the ninth annual conven-
ton of the Vermont State Bankers
association, to be held in Burlington
January 18th.
State Food Administrator Hart
ness of Springfield is sending warn
ing to the farmers that from infor-
nation in his hands potatoes should
be moved at the earliest possible mo-
ment, both from the standpoint of
financial returns, and the fact that
the holding back of potatoes is MAX
ing the conserving of wheat more
difficult for the people as a whole.
David Stephens of Barre has been
awarded the state championship of
the Vermont Checker club, which re-
Gently met in Burlington, taking the
honor away from w. G. Hoag of Bur-
lington. Mr.. Stephens won rs games,
lost four and played his opponents to
Is draws, total of Is points. His
nearest opponent was L. J. Egelston,
of Rutland who had SIS points.
Beginning Monday, Jan. 20, and
continuing ten days, to and including
January Both, the Knights Of Column
bus of the state are to conduct q
statewide campaign to raise $4,000
which is the states quota in a coun-
$3,OOO,OOO. This fund is needed for
immediate use in establishing and
maintaining war recreation centers
at home and overseas.
Approximately $1,000 is the sum
that will be raised throughout the
state from the recent holiday sale Of
Red Cross seals, according to fairly
reliable data in the hands Of Harold
W. Slocum, secretary of the Vermont
association for the Prevention of Tu-
berculosis, yesterday. The largest
single contribution was SIS. The to-
tai receipts from the last previous
sale amounted to 5000.
The Charles E. Davis Foundry
company, Inc, of Rutland has filed
articles of incorporation in the Office
of the SECRETARY Of state for the pur-
pose of conducting a foundry bust
ness, special mention being set forth
in the work of attrition mill plate,
disc plate, Huller plates and patents.
The capital stock is $4,000. The
subscribers are Charles E. Davis,