Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-11-12
VERMONT NEWS

town clerk OF the ldItSI pAeCO q
for $1,000 to be used for the placing
of a fountain in the little park at
the head of Main street.
The largest organ ever made by
the Estey Organ company OF Brattie-
boro has just been installed IN the
largest theatre in the world, the Cap
itol theatre in New York CITY Inc
theatre seats more than 5,30O.
Ray Fisher, one of the pitchers of
the World Champion Cincinnati Reds
baseball team, has Joined the coach
ING staff of the Middlebury college
football team. Fisher was grad9at-
red from Middlebury in 1910 and for
merIv was physical director at that
college.
The Wells & Richardson Co. of
Burlington, one of the largest and
| best known companies In the state
and known all over the world, was
/ sold to western and southern capital
lists Saturday. The purchasers al
ready control several of the largest
drug corporations in the country.
Ten young rattlesnakes and nearly
as many eggs have been viewed with
interest by several people recently in
Horton d. Walkers electrical shop IN
Brattieboro The snakes, which are
about eight inches long, are thought
to be from two to three days old. The
ball into which the young serpents
were rolled, with twelve others and
f the eggs, was plowed out on the Wal
ter Harris farm in North Hinsdale.
Senator VIM. P. Dillingham; of Yer
mont recently introduced in the U. ;.
senate a bill designed to remedy GER
tain long-standing defects in the ma
turaliZation law, to increase and I'M
prove the administrative features of
the law so that it will be adequate to
the needs of the present time, and TO
place upon a broader foundation the
| Americanization work among pros
pective citizens which Congress has
under this law is more quickly OBJ
tanned and with less red tape.
Upon the authorization of Gov. P.
W. Clement, S. B. Bates received the
deed from Thomas O'Neil of about
five acres of land near the 1ntercity
ball park between Barre and Mont
pelier, which the state will use for a
warehouse for the automobile trucks
assigned the state by the federal
government. The purchase was made
for $1,000. 1t is planned to erect a
garage, machine shop and dwelling
house on one side of a hollow square.
The other three sides will be stalled
for housing the trucks, with a court
in the center. The work will be rush
ed that the trucks may be housed this
fall.
The women of Vermont, knowing
that full citizenship will soon be
theirs are not waiting to get the vote
before preparing for citizenship.
Many clubs in the state that have
been devoting themselves for many
! years to the study of equal suffrage
and how best to work for it are now
recognizing to study the problems
, of government and how to teach
! women to take an intelligent part in
! it. A movement is on foot to inter
) est all women's organizations in the
state to join with those that were
; formerly suffrage study clubs in an
{ effort to help women citizens live up
: to their coming responsibilities.
: Vermont bee keepers VINO have diff
ficulty in obtaining a supply of sugar
: sufficient to feed their bees during
the winter should at once conlmuni-
cate with E. S. Brigham, commission
er of agriculture, Montpelier With
the permission of the Massachusetts
: commission on the necessities of l:fe,
which has CHARGE cfsugar di-tr:but;c-
/
been made with the Massachusetts
department of agriculture to use
their facilities for obtaining a supply
, OF sugar for apiaries. Not more than
\ Is pounds will be allowed per colony
: of bees, and the owner viii be requir-
! ed to take oath to a statement that
!, the sugar is needed for winter main
! tenance of bees, and that it viii be so
: used.
: Electricity for lighting and power
: in the towns of Londonderry. ia
2 maica and Wardsboro in Windham
county. Shrewsbury, Wallingord and
: Mt. Holly in Rutland county and
: Weston IN Windsor county, is pro-
posed by a corporation recently
' formed and the matter has reached a
point where the company has asked
PERMISSION to carry out the plan.
Belmont, Mt. Holly and Cuttingsville
subscribers are back of the scheme
2 and they have formed an organiza-
ton named the West River Power
; company, Inc. The principal office
r will be at Mt. Holly and the capital
/ stock is $4,000. Electricity would be
7 bought from the Colonial Power COM
; pany, which generates power at Cav
: endish gorge.
. The Mount Mansfield Hotel Co. of
Stowe has fled articles of association
, IN the secretary of states office for
the purpose of conducting a hotel
on the mountain. The articles set
forth the constructing of toll road
between the place where the highway
branches off from the Smugglers'
Notch road towards the mountain and
the hotel: The capital stock is $50.
1000. 1t is understood that the plan
OF the corporation is to buy the Sum
NIT house on Mount Mansfield and
make extensive Improvements. w.
NJ Adams Is the present owner. his
, holdings including a considerable por-
/; ton OF surface and two and one-haIf
, miles OF the road leading to the hotel.