Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-10-29
VERMONT NEWS

/ 227 O8. the smallest amount per cap
ita of any state in New England.
New Hampshire sales were S4S, 401.-
The Rev. J. B. Reardon, pastor for
/ EIGHT wears of the UniversaHst
church in Barre, has resigned his
pastorate, also his position as over
seer of the poor, and will go Nov. L
to farm he has purchased IN
Charlestown, n. H, IN an effort 20
regain his health. He has been rec
ognized as one of the leading unlver-
salist clergymen in Vermont.
The Graham case will be disposed
of at the present session of Washing
ton county court, according to Attor
ney General Archibald. w. B. c.
| Stickney is associated with Rufus l..
Brown as counsel for Governor Ora
| ham and former Attorney General
Barber of Brattleboro and Hale h.
Darling of Chelsea will assist States
Attorney Davis who will have charge
of the case for the state.
A statement has been compiled by
Bank Commissioner George B. Car
penter showing the condition of Yer
mont banks at the close of business,
sept. II, 1919 The total resources
crease of S435, 749.77 over the report
of June 80 last, but an increase of
upwards of S2,500,000 over the re-
port of April Is. Vermont banks
own S12,7S0,, 311.3S of United States
bonds and securities.
About go delegates attended the
state Christian Endeavor convention
held in Woodstock last week. Off
GERS elected were as follows: Presi-
dent, Rev c. A Davis of Danville;
vice president, R. Lloyd Chaffee of
Enosburg Falls; secretary, Mrs. Hell
en- Emerson of Jacksonville; treas
lurer, R. Everest of New Haven; aud
itor, F. r. Dickerman of Bristol; su-
perintendent of Junior work, Mrs.
H. A. Freeman of Woodstock; super
intendent of mission work, Miss II.
lone Smith of Shushan, n. Y. The
convention voted to raise $4,000 for
five years for secretary work.
A new way of smuggling liquor
from Canada into the United States
was discovered last week at st. AL
bans, when four one-gallon syrup
cans, filed with "high wines" and
wrapped up in a sweater. were found
tied to the rods underneath car of
the Montreal-Boston express, having
the Canadian line 1t was supposed
that the liquor was to have been re-
moved by the smugglers at st. AL
bans, but no one came for it, and the
"high wines" are now in the federal
building in that city. Arrests would
have followed had anyone appeared
after the liquor.
The large number of accidents that
! are taking place each day in which
automobiles are involved is startling
even in the little state of Vermont,
for according to the reports received
at the office of the secretary of state,
325 have occurred in the last month
That is to say on Sept. IT, Sec H A
Black started new system of num-
boring each report as it arrived in
, his Office and Oct IT the largest
number of reports which came in was
352. This is an average of a little
over IL accidents a day in the 81
days in that period.
Late information shows that the
Roosevelt international highway will
enter Vermont by way of the White
Mountain route, across the Connecti-
cut river to st. Johnsbury, thence by
|, way of Danville, Marshfield and
Plainfield to Montpelier. From the
state capital the route will be to
. Waterbury, Bolton, Richmond, Will
liston and Burlington, thence north
by way. of Malletts bay on Lake
Champlain, and the Sandbar bridge
from the mainland to the island
county and pass through the town
ships of South Hero and Grand Isle
TO the Cumberland Head ferry.
Linus Leavens, fish and game
commissioner, has commenced a cen
sus of the game of the state. Mr..
Leavens sent to each game warden,
hunter, woodsman and others who
are liable to see game, blanks to be
hlled, showing the amount of game
each saw and the amount killed and
the area which the maker of the
blank covered. When these are COM
pieted the blanks are returned to his
office, where compilation takes place.
There is great deal of game this
tau, according to reports coming to
his Office. The deer season does not
open until the first week in Deem
Der this year, owing to change in
the laws.
The dedication of the memorial to
John q. Sake, the Vermont poet.
erected at the SAKE homestead in
Hlghgate. has been postponed until
June OF next year, on the anniver-
sary of the poets birth. For this
memorial the legislature of 1919 an
proprlated sum of money. The
tablet, which is "a by 26 inches. bears
the following inscription, .sThe State
Oh Vermont Dedicates this Memorial
TO John Godfrey SAKE, Poet, Soldier
ana Journalist. A Loyal and Loved
Son of Vermont, Born at the Save
Homestead Near This Spot Where
the Town of Highgate was Organized
IN 1905. Born June 2, 1916. Died
March 81, 1887" eu
officers of the Vermont Woman's
Christian Temperance Union elected
at the 44th annual session of the
Union held in ST. Johnsburv last
week are: President, Mrs Minnie L.
Pearson of Orleans; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Elsie P Barney of