Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-03-12
VERMONT NOTES.

last year.
Papers have been filed in the sec
rotary of states Office for the forma-
ton of the Cabot Farmers Coopera-
tive Creamery association, whose cap
ital stock will be $4,000. The papers
are signed by about so of the farm
ers in that section. The president Is
o. l. Dow, the secretary-treasurer, K.
". Hoyt.
A revised li=t Of the places voting
license on y lch meeting day fol-
lows: Burlington, Rutland, Barre, st.
St. fohnsbury, Colchester
Montpelier, = nningtOn, Granville,
She )urne, Castleton, RoX-
bury. T"-st Rutland. Hartford, Dan
BY. 6 core Benson Huhbardton,
Fair Haven. -. ---.-. w. TO-,
Swanton, Highgate, a total of "a.
Thomas c. Cheney OF Morrisville,
legislative craftsman, who suffered
an attack of indigestion at Essex
Junction last week while on his way
to MontDelier. is in New York for
treatment. While Ill he fell and
struck his face, breaking the bore
under one eye, since which time that
side of his face has been paralyzed.
During the month of February,
l PA cases of flu were reported III
Vermont Caledonia county led with
234. Rutland county was next with
237. and the others were Orleans 1913,
Addison ia, Orange 100, Windsor
and Franklin each 76, Washington 40,
Lamoille 80, Windham 81, Bennington
Is. There was not a case in Chit
tenden county.
Rev. Charles II. Waldron, the Yer
mont preacher, who was sentenced to
serve Is years at the federal peni-
tertiary for his anti-war activities, Is
among those to whom clemency has
been extended, his sentence having
been committed to expire April l, .
next. Harold G.. Mackley of Vermont
who also received a long sentence for
disloyal remarks, will serve but three ,
years of his sentence,
The American Army University, .
the largest university in the English /
speaking world, has been opened in /
Beaune, southeast of Paris, it was
sand soldiers have enrolled for three +
members, chiefly drawn from the /
American Expeditionary Forces, is I
headed by Col. Ira !. Reeves, formerly I
president of Norwich University in .
Vermont.
A campaign has been opened in .
Vermont to raise S15O,0OO toward
100000 fund for old age pensions .
Tor Congregational ministers The .
fund is known as the Pilgrim Me I
l,orial fund and every county is to be .
-isited by counties and canvasses of 4
The churches made for five year +.
Daign opened in Addison county. I
where nearly $4,000 was pledged /
and the campaign is on for about this .
sum IN Bennington county next week. I
At the annual meeting of the Yer
mont Press association held in Mont
leller last week a committee compris-
ng President Belknap, Howard L.
1indley of Rutland, W H. Crockett of
Burlington, H. c. Whitehill of Wa
erbury, Luther Johnson of Randolph
Ind Frank E. Howe of Bennington
vas named to provide a suitable me-
mortal TO Horace Greeley, who receiv-~
ID his first education in newspaper
ION in a printing establishment at
East PouItney.
At a meeting of the Montpelier
to stock in the new ball
'earlng concern, some 100000 being
represented, the subscribers declined
ne proposition offered by the Bryce 4
manufacturing Co., and have dropped
.tfOrts to get the company to 20 to
Montpelier. The committee recently
secured subscriptions amounting to
'Z25,o0O. 1t then presented a propo-
luon 70 the Bryce company which re-
'ned with a counter proposition
which the subscribers declined. A
committee has been named by the
'oard of trade to look after some new
'roject
Among the thousands OF war work
rs VINO are now in Washington are a
treat number of representatives from
ne Green Mountain state. An or
,anlZatlOn was formed some time ago
y about p young ladies who met
ach other the night of the armistjce
a!eoratlon. Since that time the club
las grown considerably until IL now
as more than 20 Nermonters on the
OILS. he Office Of president Is held
y benjamin hatZ Of Burlington: that
I wee president by Miss Agnes MuI-
II OF Rutland and the secretary and I
is d. H. BisseU of FsSay-
JUNCTION The secretary is desirous
/ getting IN touch with as MANY Yer
lonters as possible, who are now in
Hashington and would be glad 70
eeeIVe the addresses of such persons
order to notify them of the club {
leetIngs. His address is 1880 18th
4 \. W, Wash 2gton, L. c"
W. D. Woolsoa and A. w. LaFoun- !
an OF Springfield and Frank GouId
I Meathersield have bought Of Ed
ar Palmer OF New York and the e. Y
ate OF the late Maxwell Evarts Of I
' . lrosor all the stock Of the Amsden :
-lme company which went ont ~
aslness soon after the death az NJ 7
warts In the trade the purchasars
eaulre LOCO acres Of land. II tene-
S--IS; store, a sawmill and a char
) nc new company of which Mr.
QUO viii be president, Mr.. Wool '
o. secretary and Mr.. LaFountsir
-. - .LeF' intend 70 put about $50 600 =
- tas business and manufactura \
Is q 4 larger scale than IL has g.
oesA zone N Amsden before The
80 nave an order for 500 car