Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-08-20
VERMONT NEWS

The attendance at Camp Abnak
has exceeded the previous records
and the number has gone above 10
The total registration is over 800
and many more are yet coming,
st. Adams is to have a debate or
the league of nations, staged in the
city hall Saturday. Senator Martin
Villas, an active opponent of the
league is to uphold the negative
while Elmer Johnson of st. Adams
of the league, will speak for the af-
frmative.
A 30-day truce has been declared
between striking street-car men and
the Burlington Traction Company
and the cars are again running. Dur
ing the truce the question of wages
and hours will be arbitrated. The
truce is the result of the efforts of
Mayor Jackson, who persuaded rep
resentatives of the company and of
the men to meet in his office.
Burlington tried a new commune
ty experiment Tuesday night in the
form of community boat ride on the
lake in the Ticonderoga. More than
900 went and thoroughly enjoyed the
evening of ride, songs and dancing
under the auspices of the war camp
community service. A strong search
light was carried so that the shore
all along the way was Illuminated for
those who would enjoy the scenery.
Registration for the fall term of
the johnson normal school will begin
Tuesday, Sept 23d. Glasses will
meet Wednesday. An erroneous re-
port that the school would not open
this fall seems to have been widely
circulated. This is misstatement
of fact. The school will open, as
stated above, with strong faculty
and a larger enrolment of students
than last year. Whatever action
may be taken regarding the normal
schools of the state for the year
1920-21, the status of the schools for
this year will not be affected. They
will continue as in the past, and with
the same support.
Inspectors under Commissioner of
Agriculture E. S. Brigham have just
completed the first field inspection of
potatoes for which application was
made for seed certifcation. The
number, something over $50 fields,
is much larger than that of any pre-
vious years since the project was
started and manifests a large devel-
opment of interest in the plan That
this interest is justified is shown by
the number of growers from the
state to look up a source for their
great Long Island and New Jersey
potato regions, who come to this
seed supply, a situation resulting
from the very high standing which
Vermont seed potatoes have made
both in experimental plots and COM
mercial fields in those regions.
The annual session of the Vermont
Branch, American Federation of La
Dor, was held in Barre last week.
Fred W. Sutton of Barre was elected
president; Alexander Ironside of
Barre, secretary; n. A. Malmgren of
Rutland, treasurer, and Frank, L.
Bergeron of Burlington, organizer.
The following resolution was adopt
ed: Resolved, by the delegates of
the 18th annual convention of the
Vermont state branch of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, that we re-
affirm our belief in the principles in
the plan of the organized railway
employees for government ownership
and democracy in the operation of
railroads. We pledge our support of
the issue now before Congress We
declare our conviction that this
measure is safe and constructive and
that it is the first direct step in the
reduction of living costs. We believe
in the merits of the plan of control as
expressing the fundamental truth of
democracy"